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A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

- Clara Bow

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

- Colin Firth

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

- Phil Donahue

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one`s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

- Jean Cocteau

It was five years since I`d won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

- Damon Hill

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are to be sure a miracle every way--but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

(Abstract art is) a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Albert Camus

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp
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Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence

- Kathleen Norris