#confusion

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#background #confusion #days #end #i

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. ↗

— Jack Welch

#change #company #confusion #even #into

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#confusion #freeze #i #i do #me

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#object #original #original sin #sign #sin

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#confusion #english #force #instead #language

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#certain #confusion #democracy #neat #orderly