Bill Forsyth Quotes

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

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

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

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

I'm so misunderstood!

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

People misunderstand me.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.