Todd Solondz Quotes

I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there.

Todd Solondz

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• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Funny
  • News

• Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Communication
  • Confusion

• To the confusion of our enemies.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Enemies
  • Confusion

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Power
  • Architecture
  • Order

• I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Friends
  • Value
  • Spiritual

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Sea

• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  

  Du Mu
  • Perfect
  • Wish
  • Courage

• There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

  

  Euripides
  • World
  • Gods
  • Confusion

• Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Things
  • Confusion
  • Multiplicity

• See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Today
  • Achievement
  • Confusion

• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Silence
  • Rain
  • Storm

• Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Found
  • Confusion

• Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Confusion

• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Confusion

• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Together
  • Trouble
  • Ugly

• Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Talent
  • Faces

• My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Breathe

• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Independent

• To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Radical
  • Inevitable
  • Convincing

• I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Confusion