People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off. — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture. — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles. — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I used to think of two people in love like that. Like puzzle pieces, fitting together. But it's not like that at… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Working with the editor on the set means that it is possible to keep track, at every moment, of the exact temperature… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
We worked on The Perfect Storm, and I'll never forget, Wolfgang Petersen would talk about a moment. Like a non-speaking moment, where… — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution. — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,' — Scott Kim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy… — David Michod Copy Share Image