Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple,… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know,… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears.… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image