Bemusing Quotes

#1. My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

William T. Vollmann

#2. They stare at her, not seeing the woman she is or the girl she was none too long ago, but a mere puzzle. An intractable puzzle - bemusing and a little frustrating, but capable of being solved nonetheless.

Nenia Campbell

#3. Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

Cynthia Ozick

#4. It doesn't help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#5. The novel ... creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

V.S. Pritchett

#6. It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Certain things give you another perspective in life.

Jose Carreras

#8. Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Ben Nelson

#9. Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

Henry Beard

#10. There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Mary Tyler Moore

#11. Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.

Nikki Rowe

#12. I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Sylvester Stallone

#13. I'm gay above the waist.

Pete Wentz

#14. I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Jack Gleeson

#15. Life is a passing moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita