Puzzles Quotes · Page 2

...Nothing puzzles God

— Chinua Achebe

I'm actually really bad at puzzles.

— Kris Marshall

I like action and adventure games, and puzzles.

— Rimi Sen

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

— James Joyce

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

— Brett Hull

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

— Ambrose Bierce

I like to keep my mind sharp, so I do crossword puzzles and games on my iPad.

— Leslie Uggams

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

— Albert Einstein

“Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?”

— ichtys

I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues…

— Erno Rubik

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

— Andre Øvredal

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all…

— Ann Aguirre

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to…

— Anonymous

[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.

— Aisha Hinds

“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.”

— Laurie R. King

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average…

— Patricia Cornwell

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and…

— Alice Munro

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted…

— Robertson Davies

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even…

— Max Lucado

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I…

— Janet Evanovich

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his…

— Robert Burns

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens,…

— David Benioff

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember…

— Sigmund Freud

…life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as…

— Ray Dalio

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round…

— Arnold Palmer

I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have…

— Rahm Emanuel

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,…

— Lisa Unger

Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for…

— Rich Fulcher

The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra…

— Eric L. Haney

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

— Brian Jacques

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

— Josh McDermitt

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

— Alan Turing

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

— Norman Mailer

“When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST”

— Joseph Fink

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

— Bill Gates