Eugene Ormandy Quotes

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

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

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Pair up in threes.

Be obscure clearly.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

I really didn't say everything I said.

Some condemnations praise; some praise damns.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood