Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Fallon

In a recent interview, John McCain addressed Trump's campaign rally in Arizona and said that he just quote, 'fired up the crazies.' Not to be confused with Trump's show 'Celebrity Apprentice,' where he just FIRED the crazies.

Lynne Truss

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

Jonathan Lethem

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

John Calvin

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

Maimonides

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Edward Albee

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

Eckhart Tolle

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

Hazel Scott

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

It's fascinating. These kids do so incredibly well. I just can't even imagine how confused I would be.

A lot of people confuse us with mall management or the concierge. They think we're part of the mall.

Kelly Clarkson

It's very different and I think that's what confuses people and throws people off, but at the same time I like that, because then it keeps you wondering what I'm going to do next.

It really is the height of irresponsibility, ... There seems to be a coordinated effort to confuse everything.

Walter Jones

They're going to throw things at us, try to confuse us, but we just have to stay focused and stay calm. They know what's coming. Can they stop us? That's the whole point.

They're going to be confused and they're going to be somewhat upset. Is it going to stop them from flying? No.

They're going to be confused and somewhat upset.

There's a lot of misinformation out there, ... Frankly, it's starting to confuse our customers and we've about had it with that.

Michael Kors

There's cool bluish white, white with a yellow cast, a rosy cast, a creamy cast. It's kind of cool to mix it all up. Wear a vanilla shade, ecru and optic white, and mix it all together. If you're confused about the different whites, go to the local paint store, they'll sort it out.

David Hilbert

I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

Benjamin Watson

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

Charles Grodin

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Bill Maher

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

Benjamin Hoff

And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

Byron Katie

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

Catherynne M. Valente

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

Beyonce Knowles

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

People are confused about the United States' stance on the dollar, ... Until there is a deliberate shift in U.S. policy, the dollar's downtrend could continue.

Peter Salovey

Our goal is not to do something 'vocational,' nor to create anything that would be confused with a journalism major, which we have no plans to develop.

Nate Lowman

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

David A. Bednar

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

Charles R. Jackson

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

Adam Gilchrist

I'm confused. Really, really confused.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Dave Davies

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.