Billy Strayhorn Quotes

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

This is chaos—organized chaos at best.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.

My world is just one big chaos!

We're a mess in Minnesota.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

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.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up.

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

There is simply too much to think about.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.