Puzzle Quotes

343 Puzzle quotes by 294 unique authors

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind — Unknown Author
I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one. — Stuart Duncan
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case,… — Richard Dawkins
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days. — John Powell
My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays… — Caroline Knapp
Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or… — Theda Skocpol
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution. — Aaron Stanford
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the… — Paul Tournier
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and… — Richard Leakey
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. — Stephanie Zimbalist
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be… — M.C. Escher
It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously. — Albert Einstein
The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet… — Isaac Asimov
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface… — Stephen Sondheim
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere… — Henry David Thoreau
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. — James Joyce
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat,… — Jo Nesbo
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. — Biz Stone

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