Randolph Churchill Quotes

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

The more you play it the less you know about it.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Do you ever have a day like that, where you just look back and you're like 'why did today happen?'

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

My motto is "more mystery, less history".

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?

[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.