Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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

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.

Dusty Springfield

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

Stanley Clarke

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great, you must be misunderstood

Lin Yutang

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

Richard Bach

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

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.

Stella Benson

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Thomas Bernhard

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Hugh Bonneville

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

Christian Bale

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Fan Bingbing

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

Cate Blanchett

I'm so misunderstood!

Jack London

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

Jamaica Kincaid

I’m so used to 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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.