Quotes About Puzzling

That lovely cool face told him nothing.

Lord John's response to the revelation of my identity was both puzzling and disturbing; you would think the man had seen a ghost. I squinted at my violet reflection, admiring the glitter of the black-and-gold fish at my throat, but failed to see anything unsettling in my appearance.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

David Lynch is very esoteric. He doesn't explain anything.

Prigogine and Stengers caution against leaping to genetic or sociobiological explanations for puzzling social behavior. Many things that are attributed to biological pre-wiring are not produced by selfish, determinist genes, but rather by social interactions under nonequilibrium conditions.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

It was like she just disappeared," I said. "We didn't chase her with scissors

I think it not amiss to say that I am a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture. Many persons might find this statement puzzling, assuming that if a person is a radical in one realm, he is a radical in all others

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Life is very strange.

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I write because it's a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don't understand. The act of writing a book gives me the same experience that I hope reading it gives readers. It forces me to sort through the various points of view on a given issue or situation and ultimately come to a conclusion. Doing that might not change my mind, but it almost always gives me a stronger sense of why my opinion is what it is—a question we rarely ask ourselves.

Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.

It was baffling to her that anyone would seek out a condition that consumed so much of one's reading time.

he woke up dead.

The extraordinary thing was, there was not a mark on their bodies.

While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

It is beyond my apprehension.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

I took a baby shower.

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

So is this good or bad or what?" "It's 'or what