Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

We live in a bewildering world.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.