Quotes About Misquote

#1. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...

Joan Bauer

#2. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

Guillermo Del Toro

#3. A man must serve his time to every trade,
Save censure-critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote
With just enough learning to misquote ...

Lord Byron

#4. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.

Brent Weeks

#5. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Anonymous

#6. The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown.

Jack Lait

#8. When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

Tommy Wiseau

#9. Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?

Onyi Anyado

#10. Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me !

Man Ray

#11. She liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband.

Jennifer Ashley

#12. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed.

Patricia Briggs

#14. When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better)

Plutarch

#15. Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

Carl Paladino

#16. I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Barry Goldwater

#17. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Maya Angelou

#18. How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.

Jam Master Jay

#19. As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

Steve Martin

#20. If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

Blake Griffin

#21. I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.

Chris Rock

#22. I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

Drew Goddard

#23. To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Marilyn Monroe

#25. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"I-95.

Bryan Way

#26. I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

Pete Wentz

#27. Why bother? It's impossible to compete with the dead.

Gillian Flynn

#28. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

#29. She took a sip of the coffee and then said, "Manna. Thank you, Sir."
"Now I really do know how to punish you."
She curled both hands around the mug. "You wouldn't take away my coffee!"
"Only if I feared for my life," he said, carrying food to the table.

Sierra Cartwright

#30. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

#31. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

L.J.Smith

#32. [Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#33. When you fear God you fear nothing else!

Oswald Chambers

#34. I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Brian Wilson

#35. Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.

Antonin Scalia

#36. In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

Adrienne Rich

#37. My dear, I don't give a damn.

Margaret Mitchell