Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Haydn

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Grady Sizemore

I was confused for a second. I didn't know what was going on, ... If they were going to give me a choice, I was going to take the homer over the double.

I was confused and all the material I read got me more confused. With all the things I got in the mail, it was hard to decide.

I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.

I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.

Woodrow Wilson

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

Valerie June

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

Ugo Betti

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

Robert Redford

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Robert Hunter

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

Sarah Dessen

Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

Will Self

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

Warren Farrell

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Walter F. Mondale

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Winona Ryder

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Winona Ryder

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Rick Yancey

He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

Veronica Roth

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

In the past, there have been so many different types of pricing offers that it tends to confuse the market. Our goal is to get multiple products into as many homes as we can.

Michael Barrett

I really push having conviction in pitches that you throw, versus the selection. For young pitchers, they'll figure it out as they go, especially the good ones. Over years of learning, I can't keep giving them information. They have to learn to process it themselves. Some guys learn faster than others, and some guys don't learn at all. Things can get confused if I try to do too much.

Tracy Kidder

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do,

I'm very confused as to what it said, even to this day,

Robert McCormick

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers. Some firms have purposely confused the issue." ()

Robert McCormick

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers, ... Some firms have purposely confused the issue.

The Fed won't be confused by this, in no way shape or form.

Mahesh Rangarajan

The Congress party is confused particularly in economic decision-making,

Neale Donald Walsch

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Marcel Proust

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Jose Saramago

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Jose Marti

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

Jose Bergamin

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.