Misunderstood Quotations

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

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

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

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

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

I'm so misunderstood!

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

I’m so used to being misunderstood,

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' I don't like the wood elves.' They're okay. They're misunderstood.

When you understand someone... truly understand someone... you can't help but love them. Therefore... anyone in your life... ANYONE... who you feel less than love for... you have misunderstood.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.