Puzzles Quotes

343 Puzzles quotes by 300 unique authors

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
Our whole life is solving puzzles. — Erno Rubik
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
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those… — Thomas Kuhn
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
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort. — Bertrand Russell
Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't. — Bo Burnham
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his… — Robert Burns
It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying… — Dan Simmons
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. — Ambrose Bierce
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. — Hans Hofmann
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
I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems… — Jack Gilbert
In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving. — Amit Ray
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
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

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