Quotes About Perplexity

He recoils at the sight of me. Are they suppose to do that?

I don't know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like 'Sabotage' - would you put that song on, like, 'I'm gonna listen to that right now?' It's a weird choice.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Prince of Darkness?' I don't know what the hell I was doing.

What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

There's something wrong… There's something wrong with almost everything.

he seemed to have been driving for hours . . . going round and round in large or small circles, asking the way and being unable to understand the answers (when answers were vouchsafed), all the time seemingly more off-course than ever.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.

Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.

Elyas mused. "But none of it makes sense. Slay the Great Serpent? Kill time itself? And blind the Eye of the World? As well say he's going to starve a rock.

Each message had thickened the fog more than cleared it.

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend.

He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.

What is the matter with Harrison Miller, anyway?

It's—it's—just like a man, said Miss Cornelia helplessly.

But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.

Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer.

my fur is matted, my eyes refuse to refocus, my sthondat-begotten room is too small, my microwave heater heats all meat to the same temperature, and it is the wrong temperature, and I cannot get it fixed.

It beats me," he said, "why they call a south wind a norther, and how a wind from the south can be so tarnation cold. I never saw anything like it. Down here in this country, the north end of a south wind is the coldest wind I ever heard of.

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.