John Henry Newman Quotes

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

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

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.

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

I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

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.

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.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I have always been misunderstood.

I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.'

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

I often meet people who say, 'I thought you were dead.'

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

It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.

It was a long time before I understood what the word 'specific' was. I remember being a kid and thinking it was 'pacific,' and being like, 'Can you be more pacific?' And I believed that for maybe five, six years until someone was like, 'It's 'specific.''

I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted. They might think you were, like, ordering fries. Or that you had fleas.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.