Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Enrico Fermi

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Jasper Fforde

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Hanoi Hannah

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

Guy Maddin

I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.

Gregg Popovich

Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

Jack LaLanne

It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and fats, you'd never have a grain, you'd never have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What's in a grain? It's got carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It's got everything in it. Why does nature do that? One guy says don't mix carbohydrates, and the other guy says don't mix protein with it; it's all a bunch of lard, something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they don't know what to do.

Jack Kornfield

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

J. D. Salinger

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

Jack Nicholson

I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

Jack Hanna

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we should do something, we pray about it. If we think we need something or someone to go with us, we pray about it. If we are confused or frustrated about our work and teams in Honduras, we pray about it, ... It sure has worked for us.

I saw a lot of confused looks from the newcomers. I expect that from freshmen. They'll learn quickly because of the number of returnees. They did show some good sparks at different times today.

I saw a lot of confused looks from the newcomers, ... I expect that from freshmen. They'll learn quickly because of the number of returnees. They did show some good sparks at different times today.

Someone probably got confused and let us in by accident. We could tell we weren't welcomed.

Norm Coleman

My mom didn't raise dumb kids, and I'm a little confused as to who has ultimate responsibility.

Barry Lopez

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

Carrie Newcomer

Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

I think people were confused about what they were voting on.

I think people walked in confused today as to whether we are going to continue this uptrend through year-end or back off.

Phillip Daniels

We got confused a little bit. One of our linebackers should be to the right. We didn't respond very well.

Ozzie Guillen

I thought he was maybe just confused and missed the sign. But no, he just started running on his own.

We drilled him on Freeman. We got confused a few times with where the (second defender) was supposed to be, but when we made adjustments they had a hard time scoring.

Jean Baudrillard

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

Candace Bushnell

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

James Ellroy

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

Janet Fitch

She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.

Ethan Suplee

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

Errol Morris

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Cassandra Clare

Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.

Fulton J. Sheen

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

Fulton J. Sheen

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race and gender privilege as the root of all evil, while ignoring the role played by dogmatic ideologies held by all genders. And it is unfalsifiable - to its adherents, criticism and rejection of the theory actually demonstrate its truth, by showing how deeply we all have internalized our oppression.