Misread Quotes

#1. For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces.

Claudia Rankine

#2. There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Learned Hand

#3. Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Sheldon Vanauken

#4. No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.

Josh Lanyon

#5. Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.

Joseph Campbell

#6. Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

Martin Jacques

#7. Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

Dean Koontz

#8. He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

Charlie Pierce

#11. We're not gonna misread our mandate.

Mitch McConnell

#12. There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

Thomas J. Sargent

#13. Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs.

Julian Barnes

#14. You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie."
"oh" she frowned, petting her bat fitfully " I must have misread the future for the past." she shrugged. "It happens.

Kresley Cole

#15. Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

Lewis Thomas

#16. The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history - the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

Robert Greene

#17. She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?"
Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"
Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?"
Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#18. I misread the romantic tension, Didn't I?

Marissa Meyer

#19. This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?

Myles Horton

#20. I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

Emma Donoghue

#21. She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Thomas Harris

#22. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

Wallace Stegner

#23. Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.

Kathy Reichs

#24. She grabbed his shirt and tore it open, buttons popping off and flying everywhere. She insinuated a knee between his thighs, meaning to apply some provocative friction to his private parts while she undid his pants. But he misread her intention. 'Oh, no, you don't,

Emma Darcy

#25. The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Chris Riddell

#26. I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Aimee Mann

#27. Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

Rumi

#28. I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Matthew Specktor

#29. We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

Joe Biden

#30. Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Matthew Specktor

#31. Don't see the mind for more than it is, but don't misread it for all that it can be.

Jim Rohn

#32. When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Joseph Campbell

#33. Silence is a text easy to misread.

A.A. Attanasio

#34. Aha! She hadn't misread anything. A man who hinted at discussing lingerie definitely had his flirt mode engaged. Ella happened to own a leopard-print bra and panty set. But she couldn't admit it to him.

Anonymous

#35. I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

George W. Bush

#36. Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.

Robert Dallek

#37. We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb.

Trina Paulus

#38. As we've mentioned already, it is fairly easy to misread body language.

Leroy Jackson

#39. physicians often misread nature's warning signals.

Lawrence Schlachter