Misconception Quotes · Page 3

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

— Billy Idol

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

— Redfoo

It's easy to be painted a monster, when the devil is doing the painting!

— Wendell V

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

— Jonathan Waterman

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

— Thorsten Heins

“it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.”

— Nina George

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

— Vivek Murthy

Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

— George Soros

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

— Bill Gates

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and…

— Norman Mailer

There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists.

— George W. Bush

This present universe is the Kingdom of Heaven, and all we do is to clear away our misconception of it until we…

— Raymond Charles Barker

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions…

— Thein Sein

There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an…

— Romeo Santos

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a…

— Steven Pinker

“Our lives on earth aren’t just placeholders until we go to heaven. We are to create, cultivate, and redeem while we’re here.…

— Jefferson Bethke

It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able…

— Asghar Farhadi

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing…

— Jane Pauley

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world…

— Walter Mosley

I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to…

— Kristian Bush

I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often…

— Esther Perel

There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means…

— Emma Thompson

“The biggest misconception in life is "That we all think we create the future, we work to shape our future, whereas the…

— Ritu Negi

There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be…

— Jon Shenk

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse…

— Trevanian

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new…

— Hannah Arendt

I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel.…

— Matt Cullen

The biggest misconception is probably that I don't have my head in the right place.

— Lindsay Lohan

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

— Tim Ferriss

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

— Zola Jesus

I will always cherish the initial misconception I had about you.

— Anonymous

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

— Bill Keller

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

— David Lange

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

— Daniel Naroditsky