Amber Liu Quotes

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

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

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

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

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

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

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

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

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

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

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.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

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

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

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.