Quotes About Baffle

#1. For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

Hamish Bowles

#2. I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

Brad Warner

#3. Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize."
"I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

J.D. Robb

#4. [T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.

William Crookes

#5. You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane.
You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain.
My senses are mad,
Skewed judgment to blame.
You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!
(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Anita Brookner

#7. Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

William Feather

#8. The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.

Kelly Corrigan

#9. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#10. Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

J. August Richards

#11. Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.

Alan Dean Foster

#12. The force of uprightness must baffle the weak. And unpleasant colossal notes are written to dying institutions in small primes. Take a dying institution holding on to prime and within sight of an individual able to tell the rude truth and uphold it, the dying institution will not stand

Dew Platt

#13. I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Jim Crace

#14. Ambitious people baffle me. What are they looking for, what do they think they're missing?

Marty Rubin

#15. I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. You mortals baffle me.

Steven Erikson

#17. Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

Daphne Du Maurier

#18. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

W.C. Fields

#19. Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

G. Willow Wilson

#20. Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.

Janette Turner Hospital

#21. Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

Tristan Tzara

#22. The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

W.C. Fields

#23. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

George R R Martin

#24. Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Albert Schweitzer

#25. If you can't impress them with your personality, baffle them with your bullsh**

Grandpa

#26. I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

Robert Reed

#27. You intrigue me, Emily Rodgers."
"Well, you baffle the hell out of me, Prince Luc

Melissa McClone

#28. The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Richard Powers

#29. They baffle me where they go with the storylines ... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

Jeremy London

#30. The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Matthew Yglesias

#31. It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

James R Newman

#32. You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The rallying cry is If you can't dazzle 'em with genius, baffle 'em with bullshit.

James W. Blinn

#33. As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.

Thomm Quackenbush