Quotes About Puzzling

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

That sounds like one of those clever things people say that mean precisely nothing!

Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had

Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us

human behavior being inexplicable to rational felines,

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

sausages. Behind

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it.

Another corner was dedicated to alchemy, another to witchcraft, another to philosophy of the most disturbing sort.

Boys are strange creatures.

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

We can all be glad that the word coincidence exists. Otherwise the Materialist Fundamentalists would find these stories just as puzzling and frightening as the Religious Fundamentalists will find them.

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

It is classical music, and is considered the best and most puzzling ever manufactured. You're supposed to like it, whether you do or not, and if you don't, the proper thing is to look as if you did. Understand?

Some guy stopped by to see you. -Who was it? -I don't know. -You don't know? Was he cute? Did you fall in love with him?

There was a lingering sadness about her that Elsa could never put her finger on.

And last week, when he finally began to erase it, he noticed something very strange: the accent on the letter E was actually formed from a piece of materiel. We all watched as he stared at the letter E for a very long time. Then he slowly unpeeled the rolled-up cloth fro the blackboard and unfurled the biggest pair of polka dot panties anyone in the room had ever seen.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause--would simply vanish without a trace.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.

Hand could never really grasp it.