Quotes About Confusing

#1. You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist.

Anton Chekhov

#2. I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.

Joanna Scott

#3. Oh dear white children, casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words.

W. H. Auden

#4. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

Ezra Stoller

#6. CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#7. Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.

Jeffrey R. Shapiro

#8. I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.

Daniel Boulud

#9. If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

David Jeremiah

#10. ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to

Suzanne Collins

#11. I wondered what it was like to live in a world with the freedom to choose. Did you somehow lose yourself, or your focus, when decisions pulled your mind in so many directions? Was it confusing, burdensome, somehow?

Sarah Domet

#12. So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are.
They're sorting it all out for us.

Marilyn Johnson

#13. I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

Anna Kavan

#14. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.

Greg Gutfeld

#15. Life is fucking confusing. I don't know anything, and neither do you.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.

Dana Gore

#17. People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

Zach Braff

#18. Why is everyone calling me Consort?"
"Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

Ilona Andrews

#19. It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Mickey Rooney

#20. ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

Joe Biden

#21. Just remember, there's not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness - of which you're definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that's confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit.

Jill Shalvis

#22. Don't go confusing stupidity with guts." -Bert

Cath Crowley

#23. I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#24. Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

Chris Martin

#25. Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Daniel Goleman

#26. There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

Austin Butler

#27. The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings

Kate Morton

#28. There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.

Louis Navellier

#29. You're confusing love and obedience. You'll obey me without loving me, and without my loving you. With

Pauline Reage

#30. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Adrienne Rich

#31. The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

Graham Moore

#32. An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

#33. Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

Billy Graham

#34. Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.
People are so confusing with the wrong facial
expressions for their words.

Tina J. Richardson

#35. You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

Joseph Kosinski

#36. Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

Alan Jacobs

#37. We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.

Nicole Williams

#38. There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality, which is nonsense.

Michael Albert

#39. Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?
... No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

Janette Rallison

#40. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. I think you're confusing God with a genie.

Kevin Brockmeier

#42. Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

Mitch Kapor

#43. Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Rob Reiner

#44. I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.

Anna Kendrick

#45. So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

Daniel Keyes

#46. I can't know if she lied about Sohtyr or not. Maybe she did trick us, I don't know. But what I do know is that I have to go after her." "Damn," Leth said. "It must be so confusing to be you."

V.R. Cardoso

#47. I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations ... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Tyne Daly

#48. Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

Jose Marti

#49. In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.

Simon Garfield

#50. They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing.
"Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned.
"That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

James Patterson

#51. No. Seriously. Speak American and not this ancient and very fucked-up, confusing olden-day Euro crap. Without the confusing woo-woo refrences, explain why the hell you're writing Zoey off.

P.C. Cast

#52. I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

Guy Kawasaki

#53. There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.

Zoe Kravitz

#54. I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I'd ever really had him at all.

Katie Cotugno

#55. Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Geraldine Ferraro

#56. So confusing. It was some kind of magic, I knew that for sure, but I didn't understand the subtleties of it all. You'd have thought all those years of HBO and shit would have prepared me better.

Red Tash

#57. The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me.

Lemony Snicket

#58. Boys are confusing. Best friends, on the other hand are totally, completely reliable.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#59. I'm just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

Stewart Lee

#60. Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

Emma Watson

#61. Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

Michael Ondaatje

#62. There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

Ian McKellen

#63. She was the most confusing person he had ever met

Lloyd Alexander

#64. Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing.

Ted Cruz

#65. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

Noel Tichy

#66. I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

Chaz Bono

#67. I find people confusing.
this is for 2 main reasons.

Mark Haddon

#68. Because looking at you is like falling into a black hole - stupid, confusing, and probably
detrimental to my existence.

Kimberly Spencer

#69. Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

Joan D. Chittister

#70. Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.

Saru Singhal

#71. You're sending some confusing signals." Curran growled deep in his throat. "That's impressive but not really informative, Your Furriness.

Ilona Andrews

#72. But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

Madeleine L'Engle

#73. It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#74. What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Anne Carson

#75. I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

George Crumb

#76. Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

Damon Lindelof

#77. One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

Fred Durst

#78. People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

Sam De Jong

#79. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

#80. Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.

James Dashner

#81. The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

Sheri Fink

#82. I know a helluva lot.
I'm not the only one who knows these things.
Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem.
My problem is what I am supposed to use it for.
What do I do with it?
It's confusing.

Erlend Loe

#83. For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.

John Van Hamersveld

#84. Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Ingenieros

#85. No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

Storm Constantine

#86. A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Robert Brault

#87. Some days I might be wearing a little dress, and some days I might be wearing something with wings on it and be confusing.

Estelle

#88. I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Sting

#89. The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.

Lee Child

#90. Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was.

Brian McGreevy

#91. Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Charles Francis Richter

#92. This place was as confusing as King. Hard edges, unfinished and unrefined, yet mysterious and beautiful in it's own way.

T.M. Frazier

#93. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.

William Kent Krueger

#94. [The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers],"Wear-now-buy-now."

Donna Karan

#95. You are confusing plumbing and love again.

Robin Hobb

#96. Madness is confusion of levels of fact ... Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

William S. Burroughs

#97. My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.

Richard Greenberg

#98. We are able to find true strength and rest only inside of ourselves. Our very body is a sanctuary and a generator of energy. When things are hard and confusing, go inside. the place can provide you with prefect rest.

Ilchi Lee

#99. Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters.

Jennifer Donnelly

#100. Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Erin McKean