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.

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.

Richard Bach

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

Stephen Fry

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

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.

Stanley Clarke

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

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.

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.

Cate Blanchett

I'm so misunderstood!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hugh Bonneville

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

Jamaica Kincaid

I’m so used to 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.

Jack London

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

Kirk Hammett

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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.