Paz Vega Quotes

Does nobody understand?

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

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

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.