Confusing famous quotes

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
-- Aaron Belz

#Real #Writing #Confusing

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Confusing #Doe #Life Death

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
-- Alan Bennett

#Smell #Confusing #Library

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.
-- Alex Garland

#Dream #Perspective #Confusing

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Political #Confusing #Agendas

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
-- Andrew Marr

#Confusing #Answers #Way

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
-- Andy Rooney

#Writing #Confusing #Use

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
-- Anna Kavan

#Feelings #Confusing #Curious

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Thinking #Confusing #Shock

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
-- Anne Carson

#Book #Adventure #Confusing

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
-- Anne Lamott

#Confusing #Body #Disappointing

Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.
-- Art Carney

#Meaningful #Confusing #Trying

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.
-- Ashlee Simpson

#Teenager #Confusing #Stills

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
-- B. B. Warfield

#Confusing #May #Ends

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
-- Basil Bunting

#Confusion #Psychology #Confusing

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
-- Bill Bryson

#Latin #Simple #Confusing

Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
-- Billy Graham

#Men #Evil #Confusing

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.
-- Brassai

#Confusing #Matter #Remember

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
-- Brian Molko

#Change #Tired #Confusing

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.
-- Caroline Corr

#Country #Mean #Confusing

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
-- Charles Edison

#Simple #Awkward #Confusing

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.
-- Charles Francis Richter

#Confusion #Confusing #Use

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.
-- Charlyne Yi

#Love Is #Confusing #Beast

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
-- Chaz Bono

#Confusing #Pressure #Fit

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
-- Chris Martin

#People #Confusing #Middle

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Jesus #Confusing #Trying

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.
-- Damon Lindelof

#Giving #Confusing #Frustrated

Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.
-- David Finkelstein

#People #Confusing #Splits

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.
-- David Levithan

#Confusing #Would Be #Complicated

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
-- Dean Hamer

#Confusing #Marriage Equality #Ancient

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
-- Don King

#Lying #Boxing #Confusing

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
-- Edgar Guest

#Leadership #Confusing #Example

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
-- Edna Ferber

#Greatness #Texas #Confusing

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Confusing #Information

And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Mean #Confusing #Want

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Parent #Scary #Confusing

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.
-- Emma Watson

#Badass #Confusing #Becoming

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ... because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up ... making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.
-- Enya

#Thinking #Confusing #Stories

I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.
-- Erlend Loe

#People #Confusing #Use

There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.
-- Erlend Loe

#Sarcasm #Thinking #Confusing

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
-- Erykah Badu

#Confusing #Together #Males

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Confusing #World #Search Engine

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
-- Evan Esar

#Confusing #Sound #Experts

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.
-- Frank Robinson

#Numbers #Confusing #Different

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.
-- Fred Durst

#People #Confusing #Different

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
-- Gabriel Byrne

#Reality #Confusing #Acting

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
-- Gao Xingjian

#Love Is #Men #Confusing

Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
-- Gayle King

#Eye #Blue #Confusing

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Errors #Race #Confusing

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
-- George Crumb

#Diversity #Confusing #Style

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Confusing #Modern

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.
-- Gregg Harper

#Design #Challenges #Confusing

The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.
-- Heidi W. Durrow

#Beautiful #Mean #Confusing

As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.
-- Helen Lawrenson

#Sex #Confusing #Trying

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
-- Henning Mankell

#Mistake #People #Confusing

It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.
-- Hilary Thayer Hamann

#Mean #Ideas #Confusing

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.
-- Illeana Douglas

#Boys #Men #Confusing

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
-- Jack Kerouac

#Thinking #Confusion #Confusing

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.
-- Jake Owen

#Children #Growing Up #Confusing

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
-- James Agee

#Confusion #Confusing #Volume

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
-- James Surowiecki

#Confusing #Substance #Corporations

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.
-- Janette Rallison

#Nice #Feel Better #Confusing

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.
-- Janis Ian

#People #Political #Confusing

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow
-- Jeff Allen

#Dance #Confusing #Technique

I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.
-- Jennifer Beals

#Holiday #Yesterday #Confusing

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
-- Jennifer Pahlka

#Thinking #Government #Confusing

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
-- Jim Butcher

#Evil #Confusing #Good Evil

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.
-- Jim Butcher

#Confused #Confusing #Alternatives

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
-- Johan Huizinga

#Beautiful #Depression #Confusing

The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.
-- John Searle

#Confusing #Analysis #Speech

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Confusing #Experts #Should

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.
-- Joost Meerloo

#Confusing #Mind #Ingredients

The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.
-- Joost Meerloo

#Confusing #Individuality #Mind

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
-- Kandyse McClure

#Names #Confusing #Firsts

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.
-- Katharine Isabelle

#Girl #Confusing #Monsters

If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.
-- Kirsten Miller

#Confused #Confusing #Answers

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
-- Lee Bolman

#Confusing #Excellence #Nails

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Confusion #Confusing #Complicated

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
-- Lucy Grealy

#Hopeful #Confusing #World

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
-- Lynda Barry

#High Heels #Guy #Confusing

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Order #Organization #Confusing

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.
-- Marianne Fredriksson

#Thinking #Confusing #Patterns

I find people confusing.
-- Mark Haddon

#People #Confusing

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
-- Mark Twain

#Writing #Confusing #Easy

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Travel #Home #Confusing

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.
-- Marty Meehan

#Senior #Confusing #Drug

Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.
-- Maureen Johnson

#Kissing #Awkward #Confusing

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.
-- Max Levchin

#Mistake #Engineering #Confusing

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.
-- Michael Lewis

#Confusing #Credit #Premium

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.
-- Michael Ondaatje

#Light #Years #Confusing

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
-- Michael Pollan

#Order #Healthy #Confusing

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
-- Michael Porter

#Opportunity #Hands #Confusing

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.
-- Michael Showalter

#Thinking #Love Is #Confusing

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
-- Michael Stipe

#Confused #Thinking #Confusing

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
-- Murray Walker

#People #Confusing #Wish

We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.
-- Nicole Williams

#Focus #Confusing #Answers

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
-- Norton Juster

#Dog #Confusing #Scratches

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi

#Law #Justice #Confusing

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Confusing #Understanding #Way

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson

#Confusing #Fans #Whimsical