Puzzle Quotes
343 quotes by 316 authors
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not…
— Lewis Black
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
— Lewis Carroll
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit…
— Deepak Chopra
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is.…
— Harlan Coben
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We…
— Pat Summitt
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It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard -…
— Dan Jenkins
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
— Pablo Neruda
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Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
— Timothy Leary
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles…
— Lewis Thomas
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The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery…
— Louis Agassiz
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
— Henry Wotton
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Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival…
— Peter Birks
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough…
— Carl Ludwig
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Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of…
— Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
— Robertson Davies
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing…
— Dan Bern
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Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense…
— Chrissie Hynde
Who Wrote These Puzzle Quotes
316 authors contributed a total of 343 Puzzle Quotes, led by these top contributors: