A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Johann G. Hamann

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Norman MacCaig

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
Jennifer O'Neill

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
James Patterson

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
Dusty Springfield

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
Katharine Graham

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

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
Terry Gross

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
John W. Vessey, Jr.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
Elliott Gould

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon