My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two. — Brad Paisley 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
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
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
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
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
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence 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
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
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
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit,… — Marsha Norman 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
To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between… — John Hollander 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 test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
“Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings... Was… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
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
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some… — Ann Spangler 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… — AB Copy Share Image