William Scranton Quotes

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

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

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

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

I'm so misunderstood!

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

People misunderstand me.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

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

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

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

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.