George W. Bush Quotes

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

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

Unfaithful to their meanings, words perturb our perturb our powers of reason ... the only safe words are our words.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

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

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.