Caroline Gordon Quotes

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

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

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

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

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

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Translation is the art of failure.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

We never know what we are talking about.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.