Misunderstood famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored
-- Adam Levine -
I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.
-- Aida Turturro -
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
-- Alan Greenspan -
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
-- Anatole Broyard -
Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
-- Andy Greenwald -
That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!
-- Anne Bishop -
Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
-- Austin Kleon -
If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.
-- Ayn Rand -
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
-- Baroness Orczy -
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.
-- Ben Kingsley -
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.
-- Ben Marcus -
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
-- Bill Forsyth -
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.
-- Buck Rodgers -
You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.
-- Claire Danes -
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
-- Criss Jami -
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.
-- David Niven -
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
-- Douglas Crockford -
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
-- Dusty Springfield -
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
-- Dweezil Zappa -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-- Ed Belfour -
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
-- Edgar Saltus -
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.
-- Edie Sedgwick -
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.
-- Edward Anthony Spitzka -
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
-- Felix Mendelssohn -
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.
-- Francois Mauriac -
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
-- Francois Truffaut -
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
-- Francois Truffaut -
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten
-- George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell -
Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which "comes upon you," but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Graham Kendrick -
My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'
-- Heinrich Zimmer -
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
-- Howard Stern -
Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.
-- Hugh Bonneville -
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
-- Hugh Prather -
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.
-- Irv Kupcinet -
I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.
-- Isaac Parker -
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —†“That’s enough, Phineas,†said Dumbledore.
-- J. K. Rowling -
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
-- Jean Cocteau -
I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
-- Jeff Bezos -
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
-- John Brown Gordon -
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
-- John W. Vessey, Jr. -
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
-- Jose Raul Capablanca -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
-- Karl Popper -
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
-- Katharine Graham -
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.
-- Kid Cudi -
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
-- Kirk Hammett -
Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times
-- Kobe Bryant -
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
-- Lewis Carroll -
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.
-- Lewis Carroll -
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
-- Lily Allen -
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.
-- Lin Yutang -
If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.
-- Louie Gohmert -
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
-- Mae West -
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.
-- Marianne Fredriksson -
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
-- Martin Filler -
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.
-- Matthew Collings -
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.
-- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah -
We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.
-- N. T. Wright -
Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
-- Naoko Takeuchi -
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.
-- Nicole Krauss -
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
-- Nina Simone -
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
-- Norman MacCaig -
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
-- Oswald Chambers -
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?".
-- Paul Banks -
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.
-- Paul Lockhart -
Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.
-- Pope Francis -
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.
-- Radclyffe Hall -
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood.
-- Regina Spektor -
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
-- Richard Bach -
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
-- Richard M. Nixon -
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
-- Sarah Hall -
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
-- Stanley Clarke -
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
-- Stella Benson -
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
-- Stephen Fry -
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
-- Tavi Gevinson -
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
-- Terry Gross -
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
-- Terry Gross -
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
-- Thomas Bernhard
