Tucker Max Quotes

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

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

If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

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

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

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.

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

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

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

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

People say bad things about me. I've had people tell me, "You know, Rush, I've been telling people to listen to you and listen to you, and I finally get 'em to do it, and then you say something so offensive, and they look me, 'You listen to this?' And I'm tired of defending you, Rush. Why do you say stupid things?" I know what this is like.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.

The more you say, the less people remember.

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex.