Blundered Quotes

#1. I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae ... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

Anais Nin

#2. It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a writer, even though I couldn't even read. It was mainly because I thought of my father as a writer.

Tom Wolfe

#3. (...) I ducked once underwater and holding my breath until movement was an agony, blundered painfully ahead, under the surface, for as long as I could. The water was in a tumult about me.

H.G.Wells

#4. People do what they do to each other and they feed on it.

Bob Saget

#5. The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

Douglas Adams

#6. What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.

Emily Giffin

#7. They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. As i emerge on deck the ordered arrangement of the stars meets my eye, unclouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are: stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters; the formidable Work of the Seven Days, into which mankind seems to have blundered unbidden. Or else decoyed.

Joseph Conrad

#9. I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Walter Scott

#10. There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

John Bonham

#11. I've blundered my way through life.

William Shatner

#12. The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

Stella Adler

#13. The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Jon Landau

#14. Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Benito Mussolini

#15. All this is on a strictly need-to-know basis. As in, nobody else needs to know.

Kami Garcia

#16. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Wendell Berry

#17. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

Rob Sheffield

#19. True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.
... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#20. Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

Humphrey Bogart

#21. If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

Fritz Zwicky

#22. Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Robert Galbraith

#23. I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.

Michael Cunningham

#24. William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by
simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention,
purity in the affection.

Thomas A Kempis

#26. Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.

Francois Guizot

#27. I blundered into creativity as blindly as any child learning to walk and see.

Ray Bradbury

#28. 'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'

Brian Eno

#29. But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have surely blundered into the very emptiest mockery in our effort to establish the one true system. I

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#30. Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;
Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;
Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,
And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

Douglas Stewart

#32. Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#33. Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

#34. I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

Maya Angelou

#35. A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

#36. There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

Francis Thompson

#37. Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

Robert Dallek