Quotes by Confused It just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that's coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, "Did what came out of Hollywood when I was a kid make more sense, or was it just that I was in the demographic then?" But I certainly feel increasingly confused and disconnected from it. Andrew Bujalski confusedkidspeople Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world. Andrew Dominik modernconfusedworld You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought. Andrew Hussie confusedrunningreality Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused. Andy Rooney confusedpoliticsparty I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. Andy Warhol confusednamespeople I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. Angie Harmon confusedbelievethinking Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard. Anna Akhmatova confusedrealquiet My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind. Anna Kavan confusedmindideas We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day. Anne Frank confusedwarpast Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim. Anne Lamott confusedknowingwriting People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. Anne Roiphe confusedhatepeople Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what. Anne Roiphe confusedpainlove-is The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. Anne Sullivan Macy confusedwarworld As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Anthony Burgess confusedmaturitymemories Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. Aristotle confusedbeautifulbeauty You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments Arnold Bennett confusedsoundthinking I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels. Arnold Friberg confusedambitionart It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous. Arsene Wenger ice-creamconfusedchildren I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something. Arthur Miller confusedstrugglewriting If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond. Arthur Quiller-Couch confusedlanguagecharacter«1234567891011»
