Suzanne Collins Quotes

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

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

Everyone is as confused as I am.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

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.

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

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.

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

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

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.

Don't ask me, I don't know

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

What I mean is, I don't know what I mean.

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

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