Quotes About Perplexity

They threw themselves back to the ground that seemed to spin hideously around them. "What was that?" hissed Arthur. "Something red," hissed Ford back at him. "Where are we?" "Er, somewhere green." "Shapes," muttered Arthur, "I need shapes." The

And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming quatrains? Thanks for nothing.

He could now see inside the sneaker. It was filled with something, a pulpy red-pink with a shard of pure white projecting up from the middle. Ward froze, his mind not quite able to process what he was staring at.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

Melchett said gloomily, 'Well, we know where we are -- or rather, where we aren't!' 'Where we aren't expresses it rather better, sir.

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

Just exactly what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.

What was the point of all the odd questions he was continually shooting at her, Iris? Wasn't there something very queer about George lately? The odd fuddled look he had in the evenings! Lucilla attributed it to a glass or so too much of port. Lucilla would! No, there was something queer about George lately. He seemed to be labouring under a mixture of excitement interlarded with great spaces of complete apathy when he sunk in a coma.

He has a kind of genius for going to the root of the matter, and right up to the end no one has any idea of what he is really thinking.

Carl Reiter shook his head. He said helplessly: "I guess I don't know anything at all, sir.

Mr Satterthwaite clucked twice in vexation. Whether right in his assumption or not, he was more and more convinced that cars nowadays broke down far more frequently than they used to do.

To wander through a day care center in Newcastle while clutching a map of the Berlin subway is genuinely disorienting.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

People stood at the edge, gaping foolishly, because they didn't believe it. The chasm was too big to understand.

The ferret sat and examined his foot "What in the world am I?" he asked, alarmed "I look like some sort of rodent !

We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

philosopher Kurt Gödel reached a similar conclusion in his 1931 "incompleteness theorem." We are thus left with the perplexing situation of being able to define a problem, to prove that a unique answer exists, and yet know that the answer can never be found.

A veces me he sentido como un puzzle en manos de un imbécil

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

I am always surprised to be chosen by a director for a role because I never understand why they like me.