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Quotes About Puzzlement

Huh." "Huh what?" "Would you look at this?" he asked, examining a small box. "It says it glows in the dark." "So?" "So, what use is that to anybody? I mean, what am I supposed to do? Write her name in the air with it?
~ Karen Chance
What the bloody hell are you, Ms. Lane?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?" "Crazy?
~ Karen Marie Moning
The place is a consummate mind-fuck.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~ Karl Friedrich Gauss
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.
~ Kate Angell
Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A man should be a mystery to his fellow man, and not because he wants to be, but because he can't be anything else.
~ bulgakov mikhail ii
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
~ Herman Melville
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
~ Bob Schieffer
There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
~ Bill Cosby
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
~ Charles Lamb
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
~ Colleen McCullough
Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?
~ Cassandra Clare
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.
~ Steven Herrick
I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I got there.
~ Steven Wright
I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
~ Steven Wright
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
~ Steven Wright
Are you just a bored man with too much money, who needs to while away the long hours of an empty life by mystifying people?
~ Storm Constantine
She appeared to be confused as if Finnigin's questions had thrown her into a state where she herself had begun to ask questions.
~ Storm Constantine
All he saw of the house, as Taropat carried him through its dim-lit rooms, were picture fragments: a high-backed chair: a tilted painting of a frowning face: the gleam of a crystal ball on a cluttered table; a tattered cloth hung from the ceiling; cracked pain on the walls beside the stairs.
~ Storm Constantine
He couldn't understand the woman. She twisted and turned like an eel.
~ Storm Constantine
Got me as fussed as a fart in a mitten.
~ Sue Hubbell