Quotes About Misreading

#1. Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.

Bill Mechanic

#2. A few seconds later, her reply came in.
WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change.
Me: Nana, do U know what WTF means??
Her: Of course silly, it means well, that's fantastic.

Gena Showalter

#3. The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

Svetlana Boym

#4. Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

Will Advise

#5. Allyson sees Willem's face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.

Gayle Forman

#6. I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

Will Self

#7. My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.

Robert Dallek

#8. Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation.

William Shakespeare

#9. Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

Tom Peters

#10. These friends represent an oversimplified "orthodoxy," based on a misreading of the wisdom tradition to the effect that all troubles are punishments for wrongdoing. Their "comfort" consists largely of applying this message to Job, urging him to identify his sin and repent of it.

Anonymous

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

Joe Biden

#12. He continued to stare. He stared at my neck, at my lips, and then took time to inspect my eyes. The energy between us was palpable . . . but, no. I had to be completely misreading the situation. This was precisely the danger of Will Sumner.

Christina Lauren

#13. Every reading is a misreading.

Phyllis Rose

#14. Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

Brian Evenson

#15. I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Harold Bloom

#16. Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.

Tupac Shakur

#17. The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

Shmuley Boteach

#18. Fifteen love,' Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to announcing the score, he was sending her a special message. A message about love ...

Francine Pascal

#19. Spelling is improved when reading is done.

Stephen D. Krashen

#20. Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

Orson Scott Card

#21. Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

Peter Hubbard

#22. Will." "I just want to keep you safe." I smile. Americans can be

Kristin Hannah

#23. All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Alan Autry

#24. Babies arrived covered in blood, didn't they? Maybe dropping something tiny and helpless into the world with its own gravy was a terrible decision on the part of evolution.

Mira Grant

#25. I want to work with Cherry Jones.

Laila Robins