Misreading Quotes

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

What's interesting about the foreign policy establishment critique is, you know, I think the Blob and I have more in common in some ways than people might think, but also, what I was saying can be misread.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

What I need to address are the situations when people are taking it upon themselves to think for me, make assumptions, or interpret things as if they are me. Last time I checked, my head was still attached to my body, so I'm the only one who knows exactly what I'm feeling, and that is not what I or the fans have been reading.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.