Stephen King Quotes

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

If you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more important, and they'll be more likely to comply.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

I was actually disappointed because I thought the mistakes I made is that people misinterpret my passion for anger.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.