Puzzled Quotations

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black.

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?

Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances.

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

I am sure citizens have been puzzled for years as to why this large parcel in the center of Phoenix remained vacant. I am pleased that the Land Department was finally able to put this property to productive use. The aggressive bidding showed that marketplace was anxious to develop this state trust land.

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

The astonishing thing is how puzzled the Yale community was that the rest of the world cared and they didn't.

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1973 by Jimmie Foxx.

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end

We're puzzled because the president has made a major part of his economic program an ownership society. What we are doing every day is helping people open businesses and grow their businesses.

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.

We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

I've been as puzzled as many out there as to why he hasn't had a go. He's such a great runner I just hope he continues to go on with it.

This is one of the more surprising moves the Fed has made in a long time. I'm a little bit puzzled by this.

In Burton, we've always had a strong champion. I'm puzzled by the calls for his resignation.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

In separate rooms, gave each of us a simple form of physical examination, were puzzled why Barney's teeth were removable but mine were not.

The boy broke into tears, saying the man he loved walked away from him after finding out he was gay. I was really puzzled and did not know what to do.

A great demand today is that work should be interesting. This is a recent development in human history, and workers in field or factory over the centuries would have been greatly puzzled by it.

The resulting weird system must have so puzzled my examiners that they couldn't or wouldn't ask any telling questions at my oral defense.

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

He puzzled those who knew him and worked with him, and who often disagreed violently about his merits and abilities. He puzzles us. No man's mind is so hard to enter and dwell within.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.