Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Al Pacino

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

Ed Belfour

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Baroness Orczy

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Charles Spurgeon

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

David Brainerd

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Charles Spurgeon

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

Adrian Rogers

There can be no mercy without truth.

Catherine McAuley

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

Conrad Black

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Duane Chapman

Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Aidan Chambers

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Bernie Mac

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

David Tudor

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.