Crossword Quotes

#1. When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

David Sedaris

#2. Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

Tori Amos

#3. One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

Derek Landy

#6. 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 like that.

Paul Muldoon

#7. My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

Rashida Jones

#8. Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

Bill Hybels

#9. It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Jack Kevorkian

#10. Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.

Willie Geist

#11. I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Brian Jacques

#12. Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through

Liane Moriarty

#13. Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

Jerry Lawler

#14. I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition.

Nelson DeMille

#15. Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#16. Digger stood and ambled toward the balcony. "This explains so much. I feel like I've just finished a crossword puzzle."
"How do you know what that feels like?" Kelly asked

Abigail Roux

#17. Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

Taylor Swift

#18. One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The pages turned by themselves as the fan moved through its arc and then stopped to reveal the crossword puzzle page. The answer to four across - '7 letters. Caesar's crossing caused certain war?' - had been neatly completed in blue ink. 'Rubicon.

Duncan Simpson

#20. One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

Chris Pine

#21. Her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

Leif Enger

#22. Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

Samantha Bond

#23. Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In pen.

Shelly Laurenston

#24. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

Leonora Carrington

#25. Within the same hour as the murder took place, Isabel Trumbo sat in her armchair dozing, the Alaskan Outdoor magazine on her lap. Her kid sister Alma fidgeted in the other armchair, from time to time picking up her newspaper folded over to the day's crossword puzzle.

Ed Lynskey

#26. Thank you for your attempt at trying to be thoughtful while stealing shit from me." He picked up a crossword booklet from a chair and tossed it into the trash. "And for filling out my fucking crossword puzzles without me having to ask. I'm not sure how I've ever survived this long without you.

Whitney G.

#27. Change the setting, change the mood ... She'd taught him to make himself go outside if he was in, or inside if he was out, to interrupt the plummet with something as simple as making a cup of tea or spending a few minutes working on crossword puzzles.

Jennifer Weiner

#28. I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Carol Burnett

#29. People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#30. She became a question mark. An unfinished puzzle. An intricate crossword. An impervious shooting star yet to determine her course.

Neetha Joseph

#31. I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.

Andie MacDowell

#32. Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK

Nicholas Carr

#33. 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 are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

Caroline Knapp

#34. The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Stephen Sondheim

#35. The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

Keith Preston

#36. I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

Anthony Heald

#37. Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Betty Smith

#38. I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

#39. There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

Carl Sandburg

#40. She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

Tom Clancy

#41. Sorry, it's all those crossword puzzles I do. I love words ...

Dakota Cassidy

#42. Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo.

Susan Cain

#43. At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.

Evelyn Waugh

#44. I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

Laura Marling

#45. Crossword puzzles, Sudoku ... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

Larry Fitzgerald

#46. I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Brett Hull

#47. Granny always said Britt-Marie was the sort of woman who would have to drink two glasses of wine and feel really wild and crazy to be able to fantasize about solving a crossword in ink.

Fredrik Backman

#48. 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, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

Jo Nesbo

#49. I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

Paula Cole

#50. Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Ambrose Bierce

#51. I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

Norman Mailer

#52. Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

Ashwin Sanghi

#53. Some grow very attached to a modern diversion known as the 'Crossword Puzzle.' We've had several come

Brandon Sanderson

#54. Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

Paul Desmond

#55. I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

Andy Richter

#56. You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

Annie Lennox

#57. Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

Tom Kenny

#58. Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

David Duffield

#59. I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

#60. There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.

Rebecca McKinsey