Quotes About Puzzlement

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.

Estamos aquí para morirnos de aburrimiento y luego preguntarnos cómo es posible aburrirse tanto.

It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy!

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.

History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

I don't know why he's doin' it. Don't expect I ever will. But it sure is something, huh?

She was...that's the whole entirety.

If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they'd never let go.

We solved every case we found. But we still couldn't seem to solve the biggest mystery we had: why no one cared about our cases

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.

no estoy en policiales —dijo Santiago—.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

They two men cut the door, and took the box, and opened it, — and when they'd opened it, they didn't get the swag. Where was the swag?

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.