Theophilus London Quotes

People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

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

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

If you text someone, and you just get an emoticon back, it's over.

I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Online, your quotes can now be picked up around the world, twisted, translated, and interpreted to mean the opposite of what you have actually said.

I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

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

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.