Jay Asher Quotes

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

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

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

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

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

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.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.