Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Child

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Julia Cameron

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

J. Tillman

I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

Ja Rule

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

Gary L. Francione

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

Glenn Reynolds

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

Hu Jintao

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Hugh Leonard

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking

I don't think we can physically match them, so we're going to try and confuse them a little bit,

I continue to be confused on all of this information. But I think everybody agrees that we need more graduate medical programs.

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.

Hillary Clinton

I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they`re part of the establishment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was ....

Eva Mendes

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a well-intended program, but there are a lot of seniors who are very confused and a lot who are worse off.

Ben Johnson

They confuse us all. They all look alike.

Kyle Orton

They confused me. They're a solid defense. I'm not going to put this on me being young or anything. I played like crap today.

Kyle Orton

They confused me. They had a great package in and they're a solid defense. They made the plays and I got confused on a couple of plays.