Quotes about Misunderstanding

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold — and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

Don't call us saints, we don't want to be dismissed that easily.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--

You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.

Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.

They sought to pummel His pride, not understanding He'd laid it aside at birth, when He gave up heaven and came to earth.

Ben would have done anything for you." "I thought that meant he was an idiot." "No," Maravelle says. "It means you're an idiot.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.