Befuddlement Quotes

#1. Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic's private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.

Eugene Lyons

#2. I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

John Mole

#3. They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

Anna Von Der Goltz

#4. To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#5. Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.

Rebecca Makkai

#6. Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Fred Allen

#7. The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

Nick Cave

#8. I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

Kacey Musgraves

#9. Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

David Mamet