“Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I… — Jean Shrimpton Copy Share Image
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
