Muddle quotes:

Send

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. -- Anthony Sampson
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle. -- Harold Wilson
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. -- Zane Grey
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind. -- Mariella Frostrup
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. -- Shel Silverstein
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. -- Iris Murdoch
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. -- Jane Goodall
I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent. -- Louis MacNeice
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is. -- James Stephens
I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie. -- Peter Jackson
I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you. -- Ronnie Wood
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. -- Peter MacKay
If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life. -- Elaine Paige
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time. -- Vint Cerf
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm. -- Samantha Power
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. -- Tom Baker
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. -- Antony Beevor
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. -- Philip Larkin
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. -- Charles de Lint
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. -- E. M. Forster
All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things. -- David Walton
Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle. -- T.H. White
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them. -- Thomas Eakins
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. -- John Maynard Smith
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening. -- Richard Dawkins
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. -- Charles Dickens
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. -- Walter Lippmann
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically. -- Joe Perry
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. -- Ann Brashares
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment. -- Aleister Crowley
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle. -- John Maynard Keynes
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. -- Nicholas Sparks
If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it. -- Ian Graham
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him. -- Rudyard Kipling
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. -- Alberto Manguel
Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot. -- Wilfrid Sheed
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects. -- Jorge Luis Borges
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. -- Dr. Seuss

Send