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Quotes About Perplexing

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
~ Walker Percy
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
~ James Thurber
Questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn't respond without committing a venial sin.
~ Neal Stephenson
Everything from the brim of this hat to the hem of her dress was too complex for Daniel's eye to comprehend—he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible—but
~ Neal Stephenson
This was a bit like running into a clan of kilted Scotsmen in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
~ Neal Stephenson
totally unconnected, as inscrutable as a Tibetan monk on quaaludes.
~ Nelson DeMille
My stories are often a little mysterious.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.
~ Katie Kitamura
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.
~ Steve Martin
Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
~ John C. Reilly
It was one of those explanations that explained nothing but sounded impressive. Joseph
~ Val McDermid
Abstruse speculations contain vertigo.
~ Victor Hugo
He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.
~ Cassandra Clare
It was not news to him that many people in the world—the entire population of grown-ups, for example—behaved in ways he could not understand.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I think this is very strange --" "All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
~ Giorgio de Chirico
Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.
~ Goethe
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The fatality rate is 100%. But then things get very weird.
~ James Evans
A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
~ Jane Goldman
I never really understood why guys wear boxers underneath swim trunks.
~ Nina Agdal
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.
~ Paul Shaffer