Quotes About Puzzling

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed." Winnifred Crane

My father, on the other hand, is a shadowy figure.

that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Kate& Derek "No, Kate, you don't understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone." I couldn't resist. "Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke.

You mortals baffle me.

Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest

Your love of mystery is really quite tiresome, you know!

He had always been a difficult creature to fathom.

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch. What happened? Matt asked, gasping. I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.

It was the first time anyone had found a virus of a virus. It was yet another thing that ought not to exist.

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town of River Heights, frequently discussed puzzling aspects of cases with his blond, blue-eyed daughter.

I could tell that Peter, in the irritating way of very young men, had been mysterious about the whole episode.

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

Things then did not delay in turning curious.

I can't tell if you're awesome or pathetic.

Sometimes I found it was better if I turned up and appeared pissed off without anybody knowing why. I'd get more out of them. It made them go, wow, he's weird; he's gone a bit eccentric or cantankerous.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

Wesley developed a theological style that not only was sophisticated in its attempt to hold a diversity of truths in tension, but also has on occasion puzzled his interpreters, both past and present, precisely because of that diversity.

Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said, "That, short-and-hairy, is what he meant.