Amanda Hocking Quotes

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

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

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

I want to manufacture a feud.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

He doesn’t scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he’s angry with me. 'Don’t be an idiot,' he says. 'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket? 'You were lying.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Things don't always look as they seem.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

I've heard a lot about you, Rose. Don't worry. It was all good." "No, it wasn't.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Things are not what they seem.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.