Quotes About Misreading

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

The target was destroyed. But the CIA had misread its maps. The building was not Milosevic's military depot. It was the Chinese embassy.

You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

Damals fing ich auch an, alles was ich las, entstellt zu lesen. Wenn irgendwo stand >Sommermoden<, habe ich gelesen >Sommermorde<. [...] Die neuen Wintermorde sind angekommen, sie werden schon in den wichtigsten Mordhäusern vorgeführt.

Smith's interpretation was wrong.

Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

I'm not saying that his views are anti-American. That was a misreading of what I said and so I don't believe that that's my position.