Misunderstands Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney! — Neil Cavuto

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions ... — Pliny The Elder

I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession. — Ellen Hopkins

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. — Alan Moore

Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing. — Polly Shulman

The aforesaid disagreement between these men sprang from a misunderstanding. And the cause of it is that each thinks he is better than the other, when as a matter of fact there is no real difference between them except perhaps some trifling variation in the manner of wearing their hair. Each maintains that his country is in some way more holy than the other's, though in strict reality France and Germany are exactly the same country, and no one in full possession of his faculties can possibly see any difference between them. — Halldor Laxness

It's an obsession of mine, that different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing, but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is. — Rita Mae Brown

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken. — John Barrasso

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going. — Michael Nesmith

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit. — Rick Santorum

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. ( ... ) — Arthur Conan Doyle

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors. — George Bernard Shaw