Top 22 Baffled Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Baffled Quotes from famous people such as Mal Peet, Tracee Ellis Ross, Laurie Graham, Gina Miller, Moby, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
Mal Peet
I’m baffled by the people who say, ‘I’m just not going to vote.’
Tracee Ellis Ross
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
Laurie Graham
As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard’s ‘Women & Power: A Manifesto’ brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.
Gina Miller
‘Arbitrary’ and ‘odd’ are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I’m perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Moby
I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.
Dinesh Paliwal
I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don’t want them; when I want them, they don’t want me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I’ve never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I’m always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.
Hisham Matar
I am baffled by good writing.
Paul Dano
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini
I’m baffled all the time. We don’t know what’s driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It’s strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it’s a stock, a currency.
Bill Bailey
I’ve always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
Charles McCarry
I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.
Ariel Levy
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
P. J. O’Rourke
For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn’t bake.
Jennifer Lee
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.
Julia Sawalha
I’m baffled that Mark Greenberg would send an offensive email politicizing the beheading of an American journalist.
Elizabeth Esty
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam Smith
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright