James Blunt Quotes

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.

If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I feel like what I say on Twitter has actually a lower rate of misinterpretation than what I say on interviews because I'm just kind of rambling on interviews, and I'm just talking, talking and talking.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.