Puzzled And Confused Quotes

#1. She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

Margaret Landon

#2. Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

Don DeLillo

#3. I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

John Steinbeck

#4. I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

Agatha Christie

#5. See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

Bryant McGill

#7. When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Damien Hirst

#8. Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Re-creative artists are investigators.

William Boughton

#10. We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.

Natalie Portman

#11. My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

Filo Tiatia

#12. I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Andrew Wyeth

#13. That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

Dane Cook

#15. A salaam aleikum. The elderly Irishwoman has a foamy cloud of white hair and a zigzag cashmere poncho. You wouldn't cross her.

David Mitchell

#16. From where do you find such awesome stuff??
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I'm little puzzled, and confused that people say "No", and they want everything to be on their table!

Deyth Banger

#17. I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

Tony Judt