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Quotes About Puzzled

Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. They'll solve it." Reggie chuckled when he realized Sebastian was puzzled, if only momentarily. "That's the real name for Scotland Yard, which is actually the name of the street and the building where they are housed.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Brambleclaw looked baffled.
~ Erin Hunter
I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.
~ Jenny Lewis
there was much breathless talk of new elements, bizarre optical properties, and other things which puzzled men of science are wont to say when faced by the unknown. Hot
~ H.P. Lovecraft
about. I looked around helplessly
~ Hana Schank
Pearl has known Dwayne since he was born, and is confident that he won't breach any bail conditions. Yes, she knows what Dwayne is charged with, and she understands her responsibilities. Dan MacRury wants to be clear about her role. 'Are you suggesting that he will come live with you?' he asks. Pearl looks puzzled, but she is not fazed. 'Well, he can if he likes,' she says.
~ Silver Donald Cameron
Then, after the Treaty of Versailles had been concluded, they suddenly remembered that they were also producers, and that the influx of German goods which they had been demanding would ruin their industries. They were so puzzled that they started scratching their heads, but that did no good, even when they all did it together and called it an International Conference.
~ Bertrand Russell
The car may have known the way, but Teddy had no idea where he was going.
~ Stuart Woods
He kept low and darted to another tree. He looked, he assumed, rather doofy - a guy six feet four inches tall and comfortably over two hundred pounds darting between bushes like something left on the cutting room floor of The Dirty Dozen.
~ Harlan Coben
Ultimately, Bosch was confounded
~ Michael Connelly
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.
~ Nicole Kidman
With you I'm jealous of what is obscure, unconscious, of something in which explanations are unthinkable, of something that cannot be puzzled out. I'm jealous of your toilet things, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the infectious diseases borne on the air, which may affect you and poison your blood.
~ Boris Pasternak
She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me! .... The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me! .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)
~ Ted Dekker
He was the luckiest man on earth, and he didn't know why.
~ Julianne MacLean
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
~ Fred Allen
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
~ Brandon Sanderson
She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.
~ Henry James
Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.
~ Stephen Crane
My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
~ Kim Gordon
The final puzzled look on the man's face suggested that he was not expecting to be gored by a giant stuffed fish head.
~ Carl Hiaasen
YOU ARE NOT AFRAID? 'Not yet. But, er...which way to the egress, please?' There was a pause. Then Death said, in a puzzled voice: ISN'T THAT A FEMALE EAGLE?
~ Terry Pratchett
In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower.
~ Terry Pratchett
Roland was staring at Tiffany, so nonplussed he was nearly minused.
~ Terry Pratchett
Goodall fingered his chin, looking puzzled, as though he'd recently had a beard and someone had taken it while he wasn't looking.
~ Kate Flora