Baffling Quotes

44 quotes by 39 authors

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't… — Gerhard Richter
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would… — Lukas Foss
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of… — Philip Guston
In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action — Winston Churchill
Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices. — Amy Dickinson
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful… — Mikhail Naimy
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. — Henry Miller
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. — Unknown Author
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but… — Steven Morrissey
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to… — Barack Obama
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. — E. O. Wilson
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a… — Winston Churchill
A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high… — Tim O'Brien
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense… — Anita Shreve
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If… — Richard Wright
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what… — Lauren Oliver
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity… — Douglas Adams
I didn't answer, but, pleaseâ€”nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling. — Rick Riordan
Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for… — Caitlin Moran

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