Marti Noxon Quotes

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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

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.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

The message sent is not always the message received.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

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

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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

A mutual misunderstanding.