I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles,” — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle. — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to… — Raheem Jarbo Copy Share Image
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and… — Jean Hugard Copy Share Image
It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Most of the teams who traded for me or signed me needed me to fill a hole in the puzzle. I feel… — Kenny Lofton Copy Share Image
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
“A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
