Quotes About Baffled

Great sweater, by the way. Cashmere?" Baffled, Eve looked down at her navy turtleneck. "I don't know. It's blue.

We are, a lot of the time, baffled by the news we see on the front pages of our newspapers, often because the stories are complex, and we missed the beginning of them anyway. (How far back do we have to go to find the roots of the Euro crisis? To 2008? 1999, when the currency came into being? 1992? 1945?) That is one of the reasons why natural disasters and murders and cases involving missing children become so involving: we understand them.

It's my job to see it. It's your gift, she corrected. Your family must be proud of you. She spoke casually, began to eat again, then stared at him, baffled, when he laughed. Why is that funny? Pride wouldn't exactly be part of their general outlook to my way of thinking. Why? People can't find pride in what they don't understand.Not all families, Keeley, are as cozy as yours.

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

I had met him, the New Mortal, baffled and lost, but I was a phantom Helen and he was Achilles' ghost.

Sir," said the young man in intense excitement, "a mystery has been committed!" "Ha!" said the Great Detective, his eye kindling, "is it such as to completely baffle the police of the entire continent?" "They are so completely baffled with it," said the secretary, "that they are lying collapsed in heaps; many of them have committed suicide.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing.

Lucy is still baffled by English schools. In France the teachers want nothing to do with the parents; they'd rather children didn't actually have any parents, she'd sometimes thought. Here the parents virtually live at the school: reading sessions in the classroom, special assemblies for parents to attend, cake sales every five minutes it sometimes seems.

Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it.

Sometimes they accuse her in Latin and she looks at them, baffled by a language that she has only ever heard spoken in church, in the Mass that she loves. How could these very sounds, these familiar beloved tones, so solemn and musical to her, now be the voice of accusation ?

nonplussed.

Just say perplexed or bewildered, even confused, but never nonplussed.

There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit.

He had been studying the writings of some local alchemists, he said, but remained baffled by their bizarre symbols and opaque texts. So, he composed a parody of their efforts, making incomprehensible claims by means of unintelligible symbols, and forwarded it to the president of the society. The president, apparently understanding the paper not at all, drew the obvious conclusion that its author was a genius.

Boris the Bewildered

the manner of speech of everybody in the world—held strange, elusive complexities, intricately presented with overtones of vagueness: I have always been baffled by these precautions so strict as to be useless, and by the intensely irritating little maneuvers surrounding them.

Who goes dere? Friend or Foe?" "Neither," said Pidge and he laughed. "Doan know what to do about a Neither," said the frog looking baffled. Then he remembered that he was supposed to say something more. "Tress.. um, tress…ah!…passers! Trespassers will be….will be…" He forgot the rest. "What?" asked Brigit. "Trespassers will be kilt stone dead!" the frog said brightly. "Oh, really?" said Brigit.