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.

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.

Dusty Springfield

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

Andy Serkis

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

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Clarence Darrow

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

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.

Jamaica Kincaid

I’m so used to being misunderstood,

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Cate Blanchett

I'm so misunderstood!

Christian Bale

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

Kirk Hammett

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

Jack London

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

Oscar Wilde

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Oscar Wilde

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Fan Bingbing

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

Hugh Bonneville

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

Woody Harrelson

Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

Willem Dafoe

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

Rudyard Kipling

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Ronald Reagan

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

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.

Emile M. Cioran

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

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.