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Quotes About Puzzlement

As I have said with huge wisdomosity many times, boys the world over are a bloody mystery.
~ Louise Rennison
All along, she had given him the sort of On-Off treatment scientists use to drive rats insane. In humans, this merely leads to a state of high anxiety. She was a mystery to him. A mystery banana.
~ Lucy Ellmann
Frankly, people don't make sense to me.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.
~ Joe Meno
In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that.
~ John Banville
He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.
~ John Boyne
Parece restregar y planchar con fervor penitencial, aunque no se me ocurre qué es lo que considera que ha hecho mal.
~ John Cheever
What's the bleedin' point?
~ John Cleese
That really annoying moment when you can't find the long side of the blanket.
~ Unknown
One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'
~ Unknown
There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
~ Janet Morris
The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.
~ Ann Dowd
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
~ Derek Bailey
Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Why am I holding a dog full of angels?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
you feeling?" "Not—We're
~ Unknown
What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from?
~ Dodie Smith
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
~ Don DeLillo
what kittens interrogation point
~ Don Marquis
Cubitum eamus? What? Nothing.
~ Donna Tartt
The world is much stranger than we know or can say.
~ Donna Tartt
He had to be putting me on. No one was this slow outside of HEE HAW.
~ J.A. Konrath
Why does everything have to be so complicated?" Kira complained. "Everything is simple," Alera said. "Doing it is complicated.
~ Jack Campbell