puzzling sections. Most of it was written by this Scribe…

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds…

— Wendy Mass

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to…

— Christopher Booker

All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult…

— John Flavel

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow…

— Karl Popper

Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course,…

— Jonathan Clements

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

— Joan Fontaine

“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,…

— Thomas Mann

What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938…

— Nicholson Baker

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's…

— Sandra Brown

It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy…

— Ernst Gombrich

In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound…

— Chen-Ning Yang

It is puzzling why anyone would want to (become governor of California). It's like vying to become Roseanne Barr's next husband. Sure you'd get…

— Ann Coulter