Quotes About Misinterpretation

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

Not even the Washington Post understands humanity.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.

I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.

Whoever thought up the word 'mammogram'? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.

If I had a dollar for every time a random woman walked up to me and tried to seduce me, I'd have 50 cents. That's assuming drag queens are half price.

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career, reporters always seemed to invent what they did not know and misinterpret what they saw.

Sometimes the 'fault' you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.

A woman who in childhood was physically abused by her father may find that her pain-body becomes easily activated in any close relationship with a man. Alternatively, the emotion that makes up her pain-body may draw her to a man whose pain-body is similar to that of her father. Her pain-body may feel a magnetic pull to someone who it senses will give it more of the same pain. That pain is sometimes misinterpreted as falling in love.

une jeune interprète, idiote en quatre langues

History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.

It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.

states assume that anyone with a positive coronavirus test has died from the disease, no matter what their actual cause of death.

Just because a child's action may have a negative effect on you doesn't mean that was the child's intention.