Unclear Communication Quotes

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

When somebody asserts that a stock has an earning power of so much, I am sure that the person who hears him doesn't know what he means, and there is a good chance that the man who uses it doesn't know what it means.

What did you say, Joe?

He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages

It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like.

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.

Be obscure clearly.

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

This message, in point of obscurity, comes nearer my ideas of a Delphic oracle than any state paper which has come under my inspection. It is so cautiously expressed that every man puts what construction on it he pleases.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.