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.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Chris Johnson

The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

George Stigler

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

George R. R. Martin

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Gene Robinson

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Felix Klein

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Feist

When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

Federico Garcia Lorca

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Erwin McManus

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

Ernest Holmes

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

Cassandra Clare

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Kevin Nealon

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.

Sienna Guillory

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

People get confused about what they're taking and why.

Definitely we were a little confused with it. We've never had to look inside with any purpose before.

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.

A lot of people, particularly in the past, have confused the video game industry as a technology-based industry. But really it's not, it's about entertainment and what we can do to entertain people using the technology.

They played the two roles of a criminal and an administrative investigation and confused them.

Lee Thompson

It's not impossible and not unusual to have misplaced or confused the two.

Kyle Orton

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

This is a win-win situation, ... I am totally confused as to why this union is going out on strike.

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.

Eva Herzigova

Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.

Cassandra Clare

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Muriel Rukeyser

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

Mickey Rourke

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.