Misinterpreted Quotes

#1. Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

Greg Giraldo

#2. Some bitter boys reading this might accuse me of "friend-zoning," but I'd like to say that even if a girl has misinterpreted a situation that someone else thinks was obvious, she does not owe her male friends anything.

Anna Kendrick

#3. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

Elizabeth Lesser

#4. Oh, what did she finally decide on?" asked the pilot. "At one point she told me she was thinking of sending the bride a barbed-wire choke chain for Miles, but was afraid it might be misinterpreted." "No

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

Joseph Campbell

#6. Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

Jesse Eisenberg

#7. Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

Marilyn Manson

#8. Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

Harrison Ford

#9. However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

Paul Weller

#11. I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

Frederick Lenz

#12. When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Henry M. Morris

#13. I get the impression that Mordecai misinterpreted Esther's message. It sounded to him like she was trying to hide her nationality and avoid the responsibility of presenting herself to the king. Had he seen and heard her in person, he probably would have judged her differently.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#14. Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.

Nirmala Srivastava

#15. Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Colin Quinn

#16. I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Bob Dylan

#17. You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

Gregg Araki

#18. As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back ... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

John F. Kerry

#20. I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot

Macy Gray

#21. I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.

Neal Stephenson

#22. Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

Woody Allen

#23. That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

Colin Trevorrow

#24. My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

Woody Allen

#25. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

Charlie Sheen

#26. Realize that you may have misinterpreted the situation completely, that your anger about this person breaking your rules may be based on the fact that they don't know what's most important to you (even though you believe they should).

Anthony Robbins

#27. Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

Jenny Lewis

#28. I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

Marilyn Manson

#29. We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H.R. Haldeman

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

Norman Geisler

#31. Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.

Vladimir Nabokov

#32. There are ruins all over the world, testaments of the atrocities, and burial chambers of the lost souls. But the facts are always misinterpreted. History is inaccurate.

Jeyn Roberts

#33. I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Larry David

#34. There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

John Buchanan Robinson

#35. Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation.

Alexander McCall Smith

#36. Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.

Theresa Breslin

#37. I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Garrison Keillor

#38. So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#39. These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

Edward Snowden

#40. Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted the poster, but he was at least able to give us the professional's view of the genre.

Colin Bateman

#41. That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

Paulo Coelho

#42. And all our gods are one God," Avelyn replied quickly, not wanting to offend the elf. "A God of differing names perhaps, but of similar tenets. And when those tenets are misinterpreted," the monk went on, his voice turning grave, "when they are used for personal gain or as a

R.A. Salvatore

#43. Her smile grows bigger and more welcoming and I realize she's misinterpreted my leap across the hall as excitement to see her when all I want is to protect the kissing guys from her, from the whole world.

Jandy Nelson

#44. Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

Douglas Adams

#46. I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

Zosia Mamet

#47. Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.

John Henry Newman

#49. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough