Puzzle Quotes

343 quotes by 316 authors

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
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. — Lewis Carroll
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers. — Keith Preston
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. — Henry Wotton
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
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
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
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
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
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

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