Puzzling Quotations

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.

One of the things we've been puzzling over here in the U.S. is that people haven't been dancing in the streets as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new four-year highs.

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

My ideal classroom scenario is one where students are active learners forming their own conclusions. I try to get students engaged in debating the material or puzzling through it themselves.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ""Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"" and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

The crease call to nullify a goal for us was a little puzzling. But it's always puzzling when your team isn't the benefactor of the call.

The real puzzling thing was that these were good shooters. We didn't have to create shooters. We just had to create some rhythm and confidence.

What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of Super Bowl ad time, ... This decision sets a puzzling precedent by failing to hold all licensees responsible for the material broadcast over their stations. Why announce such a thorough investigation, if we just let some of the stations that broadcast this material completely off the hook?

Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.

I'm racing for the wins and racing up front and finishing in the top 10. It's puzzling to me how you can judge a driver on that.

It's puzzling that any government would fight it rather than make an agreement.

These indictments which target me personally are puzzling since I work for the School Board and followed their direction during the development and distribution of the flier. I look forward to a quick and fair resolution of this matter so the important work being done in this school division can continue uninterrupted.

Ford has been doing a good job with some of its recent seat designs such as those in the Freestyle SUV and Five Hundred sedan. But the new Ranger head restraint is more than three inches below the top of the head of an average-size man. This means it won't begin to provide adequate protection for many taller people in rear-end crashes. It's puzzling why Ford decided that buyers of the new Ranger should get less protection against whiplash than people in some of its other vehicles.

That Internet Explorer does not have tabs is puzzling to me because users who try them seem to like them a lot.

It is really puzzling because we have grade-by-grade content standards in both reading and mathematics. But it appears that these are only paying off for mathematics. This really calls for a deeper exploration into why mathematics is doing so much better.

Get but that "peace of God which passeth understanding," and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.