Puzzles Quotes

343 Puzzles quotes by 300 unique authors

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 one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’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
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
Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives — Michael Behe
Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their… — Niklaus Wirth
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
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game. — Alan Turing
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if… — Sigmund Freud
Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to… — Brother Lawrence
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. — Agnes Repplier
We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each… — Betty Eadie
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles… — John Thomas Sladek

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