We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
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
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
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
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of… — Albert Schweitzer 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 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
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
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money… — Rosalie Maggio 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
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
You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a… — Cassandra Clare 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
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 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
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
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
Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did… — Jay Winik 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
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray 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
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
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Sanctions are a strong and agreed element of the West's response to Russia's aggression. It is puzzling to me that there is… — Daniel Fried 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
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer… — Garry Kasparov 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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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