Knotty Puzzle Quotes

#1. A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Isaac Asimov

#2. But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay.

Sara Gruen

#3. We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Roger Daltrey

#4. To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Hugh Jackman

#5. Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Naomi Novik

#6. Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Evan Davis

#7. I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

Dana Delany

#8. Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. There are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions.

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.

Seth Klarman

#11. For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

#12. Simply put; I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.

Buck Brannaman

#13. I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse

Pier Paolo Pasolini