Misheard Quotes

#1. Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided elsewhere,misheard or misunderstood, that to be surprised was no longer disconcerting.

Kate Morton

#2. You have no idea how an original text can be twisted though the years, only because someone misheard or misremembered the original story.

Cameron Jace

#3. Here is how to sit through small openings of your father's first art films, surrounded by surly foreign cigarette smoke and conversations so pretentious you literally cannot believe them, you're sure you have misheard them.

David Foster Wallace

#4. In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.

Lemony Snicket

#5. Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.
Where do you get your ideas?
I purposely mishear things.

Harlan Ellison

#6. Love's language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
It's easy to imagine you've misheard,

Richard Hoffman

#7. My love ... you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now.

Aida Jacobs

#8. If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

#9. If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.

Jeff Cooper

#10. I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Alex Trebek

#11. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Carl Sagan

#12. Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

Marge Piercy

#13. Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.

David Eagleman

#14. You weren't there.

Hammond Innes

#15. She'll always carry that scar."
"She will, only if you do.

Gayle Forman

#16. What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers?

Sara Sheridan

#18. Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Ray Kurzweil

#19. [T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights ... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous ... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror ...

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. Are you Magnificent Bane?"
"Sure," said Magnus. "Let's go with that.

Cassandra Clare

#21. There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.

Charles R. Swindoll