Nora Roberts Quotes

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

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.

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

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

I think communication is so firsbern.