Puzzles Quotes

343 Puzzles quotes by 300 unique authors

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer. — Cynthia Lewis
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC… — Don Aitkin
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. — Stanley Kubrick
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything… — Paul Muldoon
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a… — Jean Shrimpton
Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid. — Larry Ellison
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?… — Lorraine Hansberry
I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes. — Vanna White
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time… — Baron d'Holbach
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? — Dizzy Dean
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind… — Jon Postel
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating… — Helen Frankenthaler
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to… — Michael Behe
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the… — Sonny Sharrock
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. — Paul Lockhart
Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the… — Larry Crabb
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. — James Gleick
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. — Gaetano Salvemini
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each… — Susan Meiselas

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