Lauren Oliver Quotes

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

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.