Quotes About Perplexity

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

I don't get this, Hiro says. What is Snow Crash? It's a drug, asshole, the guy says. What do you think?

What the hell was I going to do with a rabid animal welded to a tree stump?

Pursuing an explanation for every strange thing you see in the Philippines is like trying to get every last bit of rainwater out of a discarded tire.

What do you mean?" Yul asked.

she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.

more complicated, and that awaited further Intel.

a chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.

It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

Some things were beyond understanding.

grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?

How can you explain something that you cant even understand yourself

I hate PCs, and I hate using the mouse.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

He was very leery of things that didn't add up, and she was one of them.