Unclear Message Quotes

[Jimmy Carter's] campaign strategy was to remain unclear on all the issues.

The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone. There were too many people talking..

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

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.

You have only 30 seconds to speak. Moreover, even if you had time to make your argument, the audience you need to reach … wouldn't understand it.

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

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.