Norah Jones Quotes

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

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

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

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

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

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

Write what he means, not what he says.

The president can talk at a very high level of abstraction that is sometimes misinterpreted when it is applied in concrete situations.

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.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

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

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