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.

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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.

Dominic Monaghan

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

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Jamaica Kincaid

I’m so used to being misunderstood,

Christian Bale

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

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.

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Clarence Darrow

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

Cate Blanchett

I'm so misunderstood!

Francois Truffaut

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

Katharine Graham

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

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.

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.