Quotes About Misinterpretation

What's celebrate? Eddie asked. That's when you can't get no dame, said Mack. I thought it was a kind of a party, said Jones. A silence fell on the room.

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

He looked at me like I was stupid. Why do people always look at me like that?

Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.

He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

The reason why most people fail in life is because they mistake comments for advice and advice for comments.

Silence always dosent mean yes, sometimes it means I am tired of explaining to people who even dont care to understand.

Then, at last, we understood that the sort of terror in which Françoise had lived of my aunt's harsh words, her suspicions and her anger, had developed in her a sentiment which we had mistaken for hatred, and which was really veneration and love.

But failure to understand a joke has never yet made anyone find it less amusing,

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

women hated her, and the men saw her as the girl they could never get. Dale

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Part of Nietzsche's appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives and, later, the Nazis did. Sadly, Nietzsche was not available to explain himself; he went mad in 1889 and died in 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition.

Other men talked about being given the come-on by women they met at parties, but Robbie went to few parties and if he was given the come-on he would not have realized what was happening.

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.