Macy Gray Quotes

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

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

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

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I'm so misunderstood!

People misunderstand me.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

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

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

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

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

I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such anxiety that I almost can't make it through the movie.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

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

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...

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

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