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Quotes About Puzzled

But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.
~ Anne Tyler
And then later, as the ambulance went faster, Abel felt not fear but a strange exquisite joy, the bliss of things finally and irretrievably out of his control, unpeeled, unpeeling now. Yet there was a streak of something else, as though just outside his reach was the twinkle of a light, as though a Christmas window was there; this puzzled him and pleased him, and in his state of tired ecstasy it seemed almost to come to him.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Anita's face got blank, like she couldn't find the expression to put on it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
~ George Carlin
Katin tried to look reservedly doubtful. The expression was too complicated and came out blank.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't know what to do with my future.
~ Igor Henrique
Have fun, you two, and take good care of Billy, okay?" "Who?" she asked, puzzled. "Billy. My brother." They both laughed. I grabbed my jacket and flew out of there like a bat.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Thinking of his unsettled dreams, and puzzled by their missing sound track, Jim tugged at his ruffed collar.
~ ballard j g vi
I was fairly puzzled as I thought over all the divisions of the most learned Church in the most religious country in the world.
~ baring gould sabine ii
People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.
~ Jade Jagger
Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!
~ Mark Twain
Oh—go on, I'll take a breath or two—I don't know where I am, I'm all at sea." He
~ Mark Twain
Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I froze, not knowing quite what to say.
~ Atul Gawande
Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Hunter had been hopelessly at sea with the situation.
~ Erica James
I was puzzled, but shortly thereafter learned the reason.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I was always puzzled by the combination of Dodd's apparently high personal regard for me and his willingness to blast the Federal Reserve, as if I had had nothing to do with the Fed's decisions and policies.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Dr. Bernard, please." "Dr. Bernard?" She looked puzzled. "We don't have—" "Dr. Milligan?" Edward turned to see Bernard entering the automatic doors. "Thank you, Janet," he said to the receptionist.
~ Greg Bear
They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.
~ Betty Hill
thought how curious it was how people leave a few traces as they go, that can be looked at and puzzled over, but whether ever properly understood, I doubted.
~ Sebastian Barry
My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
~ H.G. Wells
Norma looked at him, puzzled. Someone else to do the mathematics? Of course! Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and adjusted his white robe. You're an *idea* person, like me. We want you to develop concepts, not bother with full-fledged implementation. You should not waste time performing tedious arithmetic. Any halfway-trained person can do that. It's what slaves are for.
~ B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson