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?

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Ed Belfour

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

Dominic Monaghan

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

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Baroness Orczy

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

Billy Graham

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Dusty Springfield

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Clarence Darrow

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Andy Serkis

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

Kirk Hammett

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Oscar Wilde

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Cate Blanchett

I'm so misunderstood!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Jack London

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jamaica Kincaid

I’m so used to being misunderstood,

Hugh Bonneville

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Fan Bingbing

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Christian Bale

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

Terry Gross

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Terry Gross

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Neal Shusterman

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

Francois Truffaut

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Joni Mitchell

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

John F. Kennedy

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

Lil Wayne

I like being misunderstood.

Joseph Campbell

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.