Puzzle Quotes

343 Puzzle quotes by 294 unique authors

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't. — Jay Abraham
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is… — Theodore Zeldin
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But… — Paul Desmond
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in… — Robert M. Pirsig
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery:… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you… — Henry Winkler
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling… — Sarada Devi
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men… — William Manchester
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner
My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,' — Scott Kim
Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle. — Lawrence Kushner
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life… — James McBride
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by… — Anne Fortier
There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of… — Niall Williams
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. — Richard Dawkins
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these… — Daniel Suarez
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During… — Subcomandante Marcos
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of… — Sasha Cagen
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a… — Sasha Cagen
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your… — Lucinda Williams
Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who… — Unknown Author
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having… — Judy Blume
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our… — George Orwell
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as… — Gerald Jay Sussman

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