The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki 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
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
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan 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
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
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
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
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn 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
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
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