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Quotes About Jumble

Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.
~ Henri Bergson
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
~ Robert Darnton
Hindsight should have lent clarity to his actions; it did not. Rather, he felt a lingering sense of confusion. Everything seemed to jumble together in his mind--all the disparate incomplete reasoning, all the emotions that intertwined and colored. They would not sort themselves out for him; they would not arrange themselves in a neat orderly fashion. They merely shuffled about like stray sheep and he chased after them hopelessly.
~ Terry Brooks
They writes some bits o' their letters in them wee codies. That's a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It's hard enough readin' the normal words, wi'oot somebody jumblin' them all up.
~ Terry Pratchett
I stepped over toys and broken furniture and bits and parts of machinery until I entered what was supposed to be a living room, though it looked more like a storage bin for chaos.
~ Brian Haig
Even if it could speak, its stories would have no unfolding of events, no beginnings or endings, just one senseless, single-syllable cacophony of middle.
~ Steven Hall
Pull a state to pieces, jumble, confound, and shake together the particles of human society, and then let them stand awhile, and you shall see them settle of themselves in some convenient order, where heavy heads are lowest, and men of genius uppermost.
~ George Berkeley
Bradley, I wish I'd understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet. Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he's so divine but because he's so human. Even great art is jumble in the end. So the critics are just stupid? It needs no theory to tell us this! One should simply try to like as much as one can.
~ Iris Murdoch
My mental flowchart was a mess.
~ Carol J. Perry
It was, he discovered, like all California towns, built haphazard, a jumble of anybody's whims, with half its spaces empty because people were holding them, waiting for values to rise.
~ Upton Sinclair
This mess is a place!
~ Author Unknown
Just a single cord is enough to be tangled
~ Munia Khan
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
~ James Gleick
Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit and me gotafit and Oalgoak's Cheloven gut a fudden. Povar old pitschobed! Molodeztious
~ James Joyce
chicken remains, wads of paper towels, empty soup cans, lunch-meat wrappers, and God knows what else.
~ Janet Evanovich
Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
~ Jasper Fforde
The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.
~ Hilda Doolittle
I'd been to only one Walmart in my life before this and I was shocked at how ugly it was, even by American standards. It was a mammoth jumble of absolute shit made more chaotic by brightly colored signs and promotional displays.
~ David Sedaris
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.
~ Connie Willis
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
~ Frederick Soddy
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.
~ Ludwig von Mises