Melissa Marr Quotes

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

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

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

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

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

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.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

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

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on.

I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.