Quotes About Perplexity

I don't get your drift. I will continue snowing.

Wait till you see her. Sort of woman who makes you feel that your hands are the color of a frightful tomato and the size of a billiard table, if you know what I mean.

I'm dashed if I know what's going to happen to me. I am the thingummy of what's-its-name. You look it, said Mike.

When Emerson's poem BRAHMA appeared in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in 1857, most the readers were bewildered. Emerson chuckled. "Tell them," he said, "to say 'Jehovah' instead of 'Brahma' and they will not feel any perplexity.

The mage, Tessera decided finally, felt like someone who had stepped with confidence onto a stair that wasn't there.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

What's this lunatic talking about!?

the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you "saw" when light was totally absent, a kind of visual noise, like snow static on a television.

toobleshmoot?

I nodded, understanding nothing.

the feeling of having in the middle of my body a ball of wool that quickly winds itself up, its innumerable threads pulling from the surface of my body to itself.

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

they are mystified by certain instances.

I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not.

I said. I was silently horrified. What was wrong with these people? Peter had started sporting a beret—another bad sign.

the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.

Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, That explains it.

No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?" "No reason," the Spaniard replied. "It's only that I just happened to look back and something's there.

Oh for God's sake," he said. The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst.