Top 185 Confusing Quotes

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

It’s very hard to do that many things at the same time – having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

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.

‘Noah’ is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth’s past and godfather its future. Replacing the word ‘God’ with ‘Creator’ and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don’t take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.

I’m very impressed by films like’ Whiplash’ or what Fincher does, where you get all these different… Where you get all this coverage that’s perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don’t win games. Players do.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It’s been seen as a confusing blend of God’s handiwork and the devil’s playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I’ve talked to my wife and other people, and they’re not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don’t like the idea of nothingness – that’s terrifying to me.

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.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

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.

My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you’re writing a book, it’s a very insular process that’s very confusing and dark. It’s a lot of writing and rewriting in a way that I don’t do so much when I’m writing songs.

Buying my pain aux raisins and someone wanting a selfie was so confusing.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.

If you’ve never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it’s all about learning.

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.

The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.

Australia is fun, but completely exhausting and confusing because I never get on with the different time zone.

I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it’s all very confusing, and they’ll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

It’s fun when you’re confusing people.

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of the confusing histories we, as artists, deal with.

I’m so confusing to wrestling promoters, and I’m used to that, but because I stayed in ECW and learned how to express myself the way, ah, that I could connect with my fans, it made my strong Rob Van Dam character uncompromising… and I owe that to ECW.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I’m swimming, sometimes I’m not sure which one it is.

When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn’t make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn’t mean you understand psychology.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

It’s fun when you’re confusing people.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

For over a decade, I had played every week, so to then have a season when you are not – that physical and mental high when you build up to a game and come down afterwards – was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing.

I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

I’ve never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Middle school left some scars, as I’m sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.

I’ve learned to look like I’m listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I’m actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I once bought some enormous fireworks that were literally the size of sticks of dynamite. We would go into the field behind our house, slide them into the biggest cow pats we could find, and blow them sky high. It was exhilarating and, for the cows, incredibly confusing.

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?’

Love is such a confusing word. You think I’m joking but I’m not.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That’s the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives – and not just romantic relationships: that’s all relationships.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn’t have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

My teenage years were pretty – I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it’s really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

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.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don’t have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we’re all really still sorting out.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It’s a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

It’s a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

Everyone works hard in this industry. However, it takes time to get good work. Some get it quite late. It is a frustrating and confusing journey, but I feel I have been patient.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what’s going on.

I thought ‘Garfunkel and Oates’ would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.