David Lean Quotes

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

There are many things that I don't understand.

People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We live in a bewildering world.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

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.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.