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Quotes About Perplexed

Dazed and Confused
~ Chuck Klosterman
I have no idea where they're go­ing with this.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That's fucked," he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.
~ Clive Barker
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie
THAT WASN'T A SPEED BUMP!!!
~ Laurel Johnson
To be hustled, and jostled, and moved on; and really to feel that it would appear to be perfectly true that I have no business, here, or there, or anywhere; and yet to be perplexed by the consideration that I am here somehow, too, and everybody overlooked me until I became the creature that I am! It must be a strange state, not merely to be told that I am scarcely human (as in the case of my offering myself for a witness), but to feel it of my own knowledge all my life!
~ Charles Dickens
His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head. Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.
~ Charles Dickens
I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume the expression.
~ Charles Dickens
He was trembling now with annoyance. Why did she seem so abstracted? He did not know how he could begin. Was she annoyed, too, about something? If she would only turn to him or come to him of her own accord! To take her as she was would be brutal. No, he must see some ardour in her eyes first. He longed to be master of her strange mood.
~ James Joyce
Have you ever been to Colorado? I frowned. Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?
~ James Patterson
Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.
~ James Patterson
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.
~ Paul Wesley
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?
~ Northrop Frye
Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Or may-be one who is puzzled at me. As if I were not puzzled at myself!
~ Walt Whitman
You must give me your solemn promise that you will not think of me as a sister!" He looked perplexed. "How can I govern thoughts I've held for two decades?" She put hands to hips. "May I suggest you force yourself to think of my breasts!
~ Cheryl Bolen
Vlad blinked, unsure where her question was coming from and, more importantly, where it was going.
~ Heather Brewer
Tadu,' Sunny murmured solemnly, which probably meant something along the lines of 'it's a loathsome situation in which we find ourselves.
~ Lemony Snicket
When you are ten years old and people are screaming your name, trying to grab you at the Kids Choice Awards, and you go to the mall and groups of girls start following you around, it's very unreal and like a dream. I can't say I get used to it, it's always been a little freaky.
~ Aidan Gallagher
Sweet dreams." Elena gave her a blank look. "That seems very unlikely.
~ Tim Pratt
I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.
~ Dan Brown