Quotes About Puzzled

Who is that?" Alec asked, puzzled by the man's silence. "That's Rhiri. He's deaf, mute, and absolutely loyal. Best servant I ever found.

A bloated capitalist, like 'im, what do hexploit us poor dawgs, ought to be lickidated. It was Mr. Toller undoubtedly who was saying that ; and Red recognized his own oratorical expression, liquidated, the meaning of which, for the word had reached him from Bristol, had always puzzled him—though this had not prevented him from using it in his orations.

said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Noah the first-born, tall and strange, walking always with a wondering look on his face, calm and puzzled. He had never been angry in his life. He looked in wonder at angry people, wonder and uneasiness, as normal people look at the insane.

A faintly puzzled expression, if the term is not too specific, passed a leisurely way over Mr. Whippet's indeterminate features.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

It didn't make any sense If someone was out to kill David, why drug him first? The killer could have just shot him and have done with it.  Why take the time to drug him?  Nothing made much sense at the moment.  He wondered if it ever would. Looking at all the reports and interviews, Draker was puzzled: a murder case, the victim was drugged then shot and it was made to look like he had committed suicide but why?

Borrower's don't steal." "Except from human beings," said the boy. Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!

Sometimes I get caught up in a kind of puzzled wonder at things, and think of all the work and effort and unlimited money that is used today to destroy, and not so long ago there was no money or work, and it seems so wrong somehow, that money and effort could always be found to pull down and destroy rather than build up.

Boris the Bewildered

the natives "were puzzled as to why the light-skinned men, who must really be ghosts or spirits, had no women with them.

I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!

I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.

Hiram just stood there and blinked at her, his face ophidian.

Being puzzled mad him anxious. Being anxious made him angry.

Poor manners on my part. What is your name?" "Ria." "Ria, is that short for Rian?" "Yes, it is," she smiled. "Rian, would you please cross your legs?" The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. "Now that the gates of hell are closed," Hemme said in his normal rougher tones. "We can begin.

Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. "Now that the gates of hell are closed,

The sound of it made me feel like a cat grabbed by the tail and rubbed backward with a wet hand.