#baffling

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 are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#baffling #die #disordered #driven #few

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 my wife. ↗

— Barack Obama

#baffling #completely #extended #fact #fame

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #concept #profound #sometimes #wrong

Early youth is a baffling time. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#early #time #youth

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 have thought of putting together. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#combined #dramatic #else #ideas #me

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. ↗

— Henry Miller

#citizens #everyday #legal #legal system #mystery

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#baffling #because #ever #forgiven #i

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 they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#although #baffling #both #difficult #dig

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#any #approach #baffling #begin #character