Baffling Quotes
44 quotes by 39 authors
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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
— Herb Caen
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing…
— John Lighton Synge
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
— Walker Percy
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she…
— William Crookes
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and…
— Dean Koontz
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A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,…
— Christine Schutt
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there…
— David Chalmers
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Early youth is a baffling time
— Bruce Catton
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what…
— Prince Charles
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits…
— Edward Dahlberg
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As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep…
— George Washington Carver
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Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or…
— Theda Skocpol
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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.…
— Walter Isaacson
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
— William James
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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
— Carl Sandburg
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It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
— Gore Vidal
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There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading…
— Denise Mina
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