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Quotes About Confusion

When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
~ Andy Dunn
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
~ Beth Broderick
I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.
~ Konnie Huq
I took a long rest period. I didn't know heads or tails of what anybody wanted; it seemed as if R&B had been put on the shelf.
~ Wilson Pickett
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
~ John von Neumann
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
~ Robert Benchley
It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, 'I love your show,' and I have no idea which one they're talking about.
~ Dick Clark
Being shot at is so unlike what one expects it to be that one can hardly connect the two ideas enough to have the appropriate emotions, the first few times.
~ Richard Hughes
We never quite understand and we can't quite explain.
~ Richard Hugo
I sit there on the bed feeling foolish and angry and completely confused by the world. After the craziness last night, I thought that today I might get a day off from the shitstorm. But, if anything, the situation is even worse.
~ Richard Kadrey
Stumbling back, I shout fire hoodoo, but they walk right through that. I can't think straight. I know there are other ways to hurt them, but my brain has flatlined.
~ Richard Kadrey
I still have some of Sinclair's money in my pocket so when a waitress comes over and doesn't throw me out I order coffee. That seems to confuse her and she starts naming alternatives. "Maybe you mean an Americano? Maybe a flat white or a macchiato?" "Those all sound like wrestling holds. I just want coffee.
~ Richard Kadrey
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?
~ Richard Kadrey
I'll speak for me, though it's hard for me to speak for myself because I don't know who I am
~ Richard Lewis
Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell
~ Richard Marsh
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
~ Richard P. Feynman
We need to get the information out of Grace, Hey Mitchell, do you have a computer.- Michael Like six of them- Mitchell We need your most powerful one. We've got to upload Grace.- Michael What's grace- Mitchell I'm Grace- Grace I don't get it. Will someone please tell me what's going on?- Mitchell They're uploading me. -Grace I'm so confused -Mitchell
~ Richard Paul Evans
World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.
~ Richard Phillips
There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.
~ Richard Rogers
And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them, and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be, and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy. And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy. And the boy who loves you in the wrong way keeps weakening. You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.
~ Richard Siken
You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.
~ Richard Siken
he knows you, and he's talking to you, but you're in pain and you cannot understand him.
~ Richard Siken