Quotes About Puzzling

He could never get used to her, she was fresh every time, she was a casketful of secrets.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

For me the future role that the hybrid offspring are being prepared to play represents one of the most puzzling aspects of the entire abduction phenomenon.

haven't seen hide nor hair of her

Before he could finish the question, Will interrupted, thinking to clarify matters but only making them more puzzling—as so often happens.

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.

Most puzzling was his timidity. Giuliani was supposed to be a tough guy, but in the face of attacks by his opponents, his performance had been as limp as an overcooked Chinatown noodle.

any doubt what goes on. I'm puzzling over how to do this when

To the Romans, Egypt was exciting: incomprehensible, with a pleasing hint of malignity.

So she way awake at night and at times there was a curious peacefulness to this, the darkness warm as though the deep violet duvet held its color unseen, wrapping around Pam some soothing aspect of her youth, as her mind wandered over a life that felt puzzingly long; she experienced a quiet surprise that so many lifetimes could be fit into one.

Yes," I answered. But I stayed awake for the rest of that long, dark night, wondering what such a dream could possibly mean.

Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had had to puzzle repeatedly over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually called bad writing. Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid; no one of Oprah's intelligence ever had to puzzle over what Joseph Conrad was trying to say in a particular sentence.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

one after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.

the kind of place where one finds objects that appear to have come from nowhere …

Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,- why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.

This was a puzzling world, as he often said, and if you drive your wagon in a hurry, you may light on an awkward corner. Mr. Riley, meanwhile, was not impatient.

Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,–why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Basically, gentlemen, Ulyrion is something else.