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Quotes About Mystified

I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.
~ Joss Whedon
I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
~ Manolo Blahnik
After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.
~ Lewis Nkosi
the essence of life here, Though we choose greatly, still to lack The lasting memory at all clear, That life has for us on the wrack Nothing but what we somehow chose; Thus are we wholly stripped of pride In the pain that has but one close, Bearing it crushed and mystified.
~ Robert Frost
So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
~ Saul Leiter
I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.
~ Don Patterson
He's giving me that look - sympathetic but also exasperated and mystified, like How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?
~ Jenny Han
ANNA [After a pause dreamily.] Funny! I do feel sort of nutty, to-night. I feel old. CHRIS [Mystified. ] Old? ANNA Sure like I'd been living a long, long time out here in the fog. [Frowning perplexedly.] I don't know how to tell you yust what I mean.
~ Eugene O'Neill
I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.
~ David Sanborn
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
~ Nick Cave
I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind.
~ Hope Jahren
I am always slightly mystified by the whole 'Snow White' story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in one house in the woods?
~ Sandi Toksvig
I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I started hearing people say, 'There's a blog about your hair, and there are all of these Tumblr accounts.' I'm like, 'What's Tumblr?' I'm pretty mystified by it, because I look around, and a lot of people have great hair.
~ Connie Britton
To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.
~ Lee Ryan
I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.
~ Jeremy Piven
Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.
~ Michael Cunningham
The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
~ Ziad Doueiri
Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations and consequently feel mystified about what happens between themselves and others. The
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
~ Kate Atkinson
Aubrey looked a little—what? I couldn't identify it.
~ Charlaine Harris
His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.
~ Kevin Wilson
but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
~ Jack Kerouac