Quotes About Puzzling

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Mrs. Penmark said that she was, adding that the child, almost from babyhood, had been something of a riddle both to herself and her husband. It was a thing difficult to isolate, or identify, but there was a strangely mature quality in the child's character which they found disturbing.

I don't believe environment had much to do with it. It must be something deeper than that. She sighed, raised her head, and looked at Mrs. Breedlove once more, thinking: It was something dark. Something dark and unexplainable.

Later that day, when Rhoda returned from church, she had her prize tucked under her arm; it was a copy of Elsie Dinsmore, and, going at once to the park, she opened her book and began eagerly to read, as though she hoped to find there an understanding of those puzzling values she saw in others

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...

he looked like something more than human, or something less.

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

What can I say? I'm a complicated guy.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

Westwards along the basement, I let myself through a heavy door just beyond the dead giraffes. There was a notice on the wall that read "Departmental cock"--I never did find out what that meant.

As always, to Sully, the deepest of life's mysteries were the mysteries of his own behavior.