Quotes About Puzzling

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

A part of him felt she would always have been a mystery to him, elusive and enigmatic, but at the same time, she was comfortable as if they had been together for years.

Chinatown is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a wonton, and fried.

You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

It was one of those explanations that explained nothing but sounded impressive. Joseph

Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful.

Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancholy, and the brightness of her smile. This had a somewhat disconcerting effect, so that at moments her charming face was puzzling without ceasing to be delightful.

A STRANGE MOON WORD

There was no way Nova could have known.

He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.

It was not news to him that many people in the world—the entire population of grown-ups, for example—behaved in ways he could not understand.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

never thought about it so abstractly," he confessed.  "I've been too busy puzzling over why I came here.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

Let her wonder. It's not often that I get the chance to be enigmatic and perplexing.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

He remained imperturbable and strange.

We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

What a strange goblin God must be

there's something strange about that giant pink rabbit …

Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.

And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstacy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.

If all the economists in this country were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion.

he is able to appear inside locked rooms and come and go in ways an ordinary body could not do.