Puzzles Quotes

343 quotes by 300 authors

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
I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles — Norman Mailer
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
Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other… — Raph Koster
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
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that… — Catherine Keener
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
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley
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
I suspect it is for oneâ€™s self-interest that one looks at oneâ€™s surroundings and oneâ€™s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
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 made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made… — Edward Kasner
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

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