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Quotes About Puzzled

I was also puzzled by the vast number of people in history who were put to death because they would not change their religion; indeed, the entire fuss about religion throughout history was inexplicable to a boy
~ James Hilton
I'm often spotted when I'm staring at something open-mouthed and I'm sure people must think I'm not acting.
~ Diane Morgan
they just didn't know
~ Thornton W. Burgess
Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
~ Norton Juster
Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Or may-be one who is puzzled at me. As if I were not puzzled at myself!
~ Walt Whitman
"We've taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces…"
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke, 2001
I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.
~ Jamie Zeppa
Well, damn," Lula said, "I can hear his little feet going, but I can't see him. He's lost in between all these cars.
~ Janet Evanovich
When Fitzgerald saw it he pointed out that it might be construed as meaning that de Valera was opposed to the settlement. He was surprised and puzzled, because at that stage, he, like a lot of other people judging de Valera on his published statements, regarded him as a moderate.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.
~ Dan Brown
Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!
~ Daniel Handler
We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world…but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There its course is often so very obscure; and often it seems to involve, so far as we can see, no penalty whatsoever.
~ William Dean Howells
the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.
~ William Gibson
From CATS ARE KIND "I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on.
~ Henry N. Beard
I don't know how I'm supposed to feel. I don't know what to do.' For steps, it's like driving around New York with a map of Boston.
~ Leslie Stahl
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
~ Mo Yan
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
~ Tommy Cooper
conspicuously quizzed.
~ Paul Theroux
but neither of them seemed
~ Danielle Steel
Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for - Oh! You Pretty Things
~ David Bowie
The poor bitch is clueless. All of them are clueless, still.
~ David Foster Wallace
Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounced him man. But beneath that shaggy mane of hair lies the brain of a beast.
~ Unknown
I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
~ William Shakespeare