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Quotes About Muddle

I have been told that my above-described theory is all wrong and is only due to my Central European conceit, because the English do not care for the opinion of foreigners. In every other country, it has been explained, people just build streets and towns following their own common sense. England is the only country of the world where there is a Ministry of Town and Country Planning. That is the real reason for the muddle.
~ George Mikes
I couldn't have. I don't know what happened.' 'Tell me what you do know.
~ J.D. Robb
brains of a bag of wet mice
~ J.D. Robb
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
~ Charles de Lint
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
~ Nicholas Sparks
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
~ Zane Grey
The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through.
~ Kersti Kaljulaid
I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.
~ Louis MacNeice
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
~ Giles Coren
Gontwitz studied Moncrief for a long moment. "Doubtless you are a deep-dyed scholar and a past master of poodle-de-doodle; also, you have read several books. Still, your knowledge of Star Home is a muddle and your theories are bunk.
~ Jack Vance
Just a single cord is enough to be tangled
~ Munia Khan
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
~ Rudyard Kipling
So I says "My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." And we had the tea and the affairs too....
~ Charles Dickens
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
~ Charles Dickens
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
~ James Gleick
No? Oh, wait, that's from a different movie
~ James Patterson
jestem póÅ'przytomnym nieszcz??ciem, potykajÄ…cym siÄ™ o wÅ'asne nogi.
~ Janet Evanovich
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
~ Tom Baker
Reason, it seems to me, is useless in these matters, becomes either an apologist for faith or its persecutor. Catch me tomorrow; I may change my mind. Today, I'm happy deferring to the muddle.
~ Chris Chester
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
~ Tom Baker
And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all about." "Listen now, Hemul," said Snufkin slowly and clearly. "It's about a comet that is going to collide with the earth tomorrow." "Collide?" said the Hemulen. "Has that anything to do with stamp-collecting?
~ Tove Jansson
The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.
~ Unknown
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
~ Unknown
Life is a mess - a random muddle. Which is exactly why one is drawn to improving on it.
~ Penelope Lively