To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is puzzling why anyone would want to (become governor of California). It's like vying to become Roseanne Barr's next husband. Sure… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they… — William Styron Copy Share Image
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer.… — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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