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Quotes About Confusion

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.
~ Alan Garner
Why are you here?" "To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock." "Why did you cut?" "To send her spirit out, so that she would come to make the child, for me to teach to dance and sing and dream, to free the beasts within the rock to fill the world." "Have you found her?" "She is not here. There are only people horrible to see." "Where are your stories?" said the other. "I cannot tell them. My head is a cloud.
~ Alan Garner
What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.
~ Alan Gratz
Miss Hachi," he said. "Master Fungus." "Fergus.
~ Alan Gratz
Twisted pistons!" Clyde called. "I can't get this thingamajig to go back in the whatchamadoodle. Unless it goes in this doohickey…" "Sounds very technical," Kitsune said.
~ Alan Gratz
Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?
~ Alasdair Gray
To wander through a day care center in Newcastle while clutching a map of the Berlin subway is genuinely disorienting.
~ Alastair Bonnett
at best noise, at worse a potentially damaging input.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.
~ Julie Brown
I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
~ David Hockney
I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.
~ Sam Fender
Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.
~ Sara Pascoe
I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
~ Bassem Youssef
I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.
~ Martin Chalfie
It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.
~ Russell Johnson
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
~ Chris Hardwick
I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
~ Andre Previn
Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.
~ Troy Aikman
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
~ Lionel Blue
I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.
~ Donna Shalala
I started doing Pilates when I was in my mid-40s. I thought it was called 'pie-lattes' because I didn't hear anyone talk about it; I just read about it.
~ Susan Lucci
The world is a pile of grunge.
~ Jo Stafford
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
~ Edgar Wright