Stumped Quotes

#1. Put on a few eggs, there's a good fellow!" Gandalf called after him, as the hobbit stumped off to the pantries. "And just bring out the cold chicken and

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Check your spam folder
The prophecies might be there
No? Well, I'm stumped. Bye

Rick Riordan

#3. American Heartbreak
I am the American heartbreak
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.

Langston Hughes

#4. I am debating about you, totally stumped between boxers and briefs." She winked.
He shot her his sexiest look. "Let me know when you're ready for the big reveal.

Tracy March

#5. Where the hell did my bones go? I asked. This whole upright thing had me stumped.

Darynda Jones

#6. Remember that it's okay to ask for help when you're stumped, because sometimes you really can't be expected to handle everything alone.

Martha Beck

#7. So ... " Kimball looks at his book helplessly. "There's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?"
"Well." I sigh. "He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. " Really stumped, I offer, "He ... ate a balanced diet.

Bret Easton Ellis

#8. Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that?

Adrienne Wilder

#9. That's impossible [ ... ] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven't you heard of the theory of relativity?"
She thought she had him stumped with that one, but he just laughed again. "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Shannon Messenger

#10. I wasn't the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail - and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention - to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.

Nicolle Wallace

#11. Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

Eric Chaisson

#12. The professor is stumped about why the decline is happening with the wolves and what, if anything, we can do to help them. You see, the problem is we've let nature take its course here. We observe but don't interfere. Kind of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek.

Marie Zhuikov

#13. I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Langston Hughes

#14. Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

Jennifer McMahon

#15. Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

Lillian B. Rubin

#16. I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

Howard Zinn

#17. Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

Emily Rose

#18. Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?

Johnny Rich

#19. She bruised easily, in dark purple smudges like in blooming on tissue paper.

Brenna Yovanoff

#20. Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

C.J. Cherryh