Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

W. D. Richter

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?

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.

Terry Gross

It sometimes is just the fear of 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.

Joseph Campbell

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Katharine Graham

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite 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.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Julian Bond

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Josh Schwartz

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

Penelope Keith

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Julian Fellowes

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Maria Semple

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Patrick Warburton

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

Pauline Kael

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.