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Puzzling Quotes
People's intolerance, I find puzzling.
Jane Goldman
People
Find
Intolerance
Puzzling
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Face
Your
Difficult
More
Bizarre
Commonplace
Crimes
Holmes
Identify
Less
Mysterious
Proves
Puzzling
Really
Rule
Said
Thing
Just
Most
Which
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Queen Elizabeth II
Will
Always
Constitution
British
Puzzling
Been
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel
Me
Praise
Always
Sometimes
Both
Bothered
Criticism
Criticized
Honors
Praised
Puzzling
Received
Stung
Been
Even
More
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Art
Education
Money
Country
Belgium
Central
Countries
Europe
Puzzling
Socialist
Spend
States
United
United States
Like
More
Really
Than
Thought
Which
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.
Robert M. Pirsig
Truth
You
Go
Looking
Door
Go Away
Knocks
Puzzling
Away
Goes
Say
Thing
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig
Truth
You
Go
Looking
Door
Go Away
Knocks
Puzzling
Away
Goes
Say
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Maria Semple
Truth
Together
Hands
Something
Exhilarating
Narrator
Puzzling
Uniquely
Unreliable
About
'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.
Maria Semple
You
Together
Go
Fun
Documents
Letters
No Idea
Plot
Puzzling
Had
How
How Much
Idea
Much
Novel
Would
Would-Be
My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.
Brad Paisley
Life
Me
People
Day
Follow
Puzzling
Around
Had
Most
My Life
Two
Very
Would
Would-Be
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
Genesis P-Orridge
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.
Gregory Benford
History
Physics
Measure
Avoid
Convenient
Cosmology
Crop
Indeed
Large Measure
Leads
Particle
Particles
Profound
Puzzling
The History Of
Theory
Troubles
20th Century
About
Century
How
Idea
Large
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
Hayao Miyazaki
Weather
Light
I Am
Wind
Draw
Exist
Plants
Puzzling
Rays
Such Things
Sunlight
Surround
Waving
Always
Am
How
Over
Them
Things
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.
Seth Shostak
Biology
Back
Own
Our
Atmosphere
Controversy
Despite
Exhibit
Experiments
Gas
Long-Standing
Martian
Nearly
Points
Possibly
Puzzling
Suggestions
Unequivocally
Yard
Years Ago
Over
Still
Years
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
Maxfield Parrish
I Am
Shoes
Question
Worthy
Countless
Judgment
Polish
Printer
Prints
Puzzling
Am
Artists
Pay
Whose
Would
The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
Edmund Morgan
Time
Anniversary
Attention
Trials
Commands
Hundredth
Puzzling
Salem
Scholarly
Witch
Witchcraft
Been
Even
Three
Would
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.
Elaine Pagels
Politics
Religion
Thinking
Never
Dense
Puzzling
Revelation
Themes
About
Book
Complex
Found
Number
Then
Thought
Which
Would
Write
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.
Shane Carruth
Random
Think
Way
Conversation
Assemblage
Author
Entice
Interpretation
Meaningful
Opposite
Puzzling
Some Things
Also
Clear
Enough
I Think
Ideas
Job
Just
Least
Make
Some
Story
Things
The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
Peter Bergen
You
People
Live
Know
Compounds
Pakistan
Puzzling
Repeatedly
Reverse
Routine
Walls
Been
Fact
High
In Fact
Lots
Mean
Since
Somebody
Thing
Very
Would
Would-Be
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
Alison Gopnik
Childhood
Children
Parents
Mysterious
Babies
Fundamental
Paradoxical
Puzzling
Young Children
Even
How
Human
Lives
Out
Part
Since
Start
Young
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
Alison Gopnik
Life
Thinking
Children
Professional
Professional Life
Puzzling
Relation
About
Deeply
Find
Had
My Own
Own
Spent
Still
Three
Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.
Naomi Alderman
Family
Me
Who
Always
Christmas
Foreign
Jewish
Puzzling
Traditions
Idea
Perfect
Share
Them
Those
The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.
John Dickerson
Good
Childhood
Father
Children
Independence
Puzzling
Risk
Course
How
Lives
Mine
Out
Part
Rather
Than
Them
Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.
Dan Smith
People
Mind
Never
Nothing
Ambition
Ambitious
Interviews
Massive
Ours
Puzzling
Band
Being
Big
Far
Find
How
I See
Other
Our
Reading
Say
See
Them
Want
Works
Wrong
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
Sophie Hannah
Writing
Her
Because
Books
Challenging
Intellectually
Puzzling
Skillful
Incredibly
I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.
Adrienne Mayor
Nature
People
Legends
Mysterious
Antiquity
Attempts
Explain
Mythological
Observed
Oral
Phenomena
Puzzling
Striking
Traditions
About
Always
Been
Heard
Interested
Stories
Things
Very
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Amy Waldman
I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I'm black.
Murray Head
People
Style
Black
Never
Assumed
Emulate
Puzzling
Rap
So Many People
Find
Many
New
New York
Tried
York
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Me
People
Situation
Who
Puzzling
About
Anymore
Being
Gets
Interested
Little
Mostly
Much
Needs
Out
Person
Poor
Somehow
Started
Story
Thing
Tough
Very
Working
Write
Written
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.
Sunni Brown
Me
Business
Relax
Innovation
Clarity
Communicate
Insight
Map
Puzzling
Refinement
Systems
Variety
Around
Companies
Complex
Concept
Games
Get
Ideas
Others
Reasons
Run
Something
Them
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