Cary Grant Quotes

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Translation is the art of failure.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

People are always misquoting me.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

Famous quotes are seldom quoted correctly.

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

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.

When you throw the ball 50 times, there are going to be some that are inaccurate.