Quotes About Puzzles

#1. My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

Michael Loceff

#2. I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.

Derrick Jensen

#3. each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

#5. The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

Lewis Thomas

#6. One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Sophie Hannah

#8. 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 words, with games, learning is the drug.

Raph Koster

#9. I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Neil Patrick Harris

#10. Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age.

Cheryl Matthynssens

#11. 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

#12. I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

Thom Yorke

#13. I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

Samuel L. Jackson

#14. I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

Kevin Mitnick

#15. That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

Christine Jennings

#16. I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

Poe Ballantine

#17. Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Howard Markel

#18. What puzzles me most is the disappearance of the Diatessaron and where it might be now.

Ian Caldwell

#19. 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

#20. Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

Mason Cooley

#21. Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

J.G. Ballard

#22. The Corridor is a series of environments, challenges, and puzzles that have to be overcome. I'm the Conduit, you're the Runner. I'm here to tell you the rules. You must decide how to use them.

Robin Parrish

#23. 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.

#24. Hebrews is a delight for the person who enjoys puzzles...It invites engagement in the task of defining the undefined.

William L. Lane

#25. Mysteries like these repeating cycles make it very interesting to be a theoretical physicist: Nature gives us such wonderful puzzles! Why does She repeat the electron at 206 times and 3,640 times its mass?

Richard Feynman

#26. But don't you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix)
Not at all. Love I understand completely. It's hatred that puzzles me. I don't comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. Whilst I love still hiding ... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.

Graeme Base

#28. There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray.

Ann Aguirre

#29. An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

Roberta Williams

#30. I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.

Josh McDermitt

#31. Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

Joss Whedon

#32. Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

Patrick Modiano

#33. My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Bill Gates

#34. As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

Bonnie Bassler

#35. It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

Frances Farmer

#36. Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

James Gleick

#37. Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

#38. I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

Lisa Loeb

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

Chris Pine

#40. 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 because of the SF connection.

John Sladek

#41. Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

Richelle Mead

#42. Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#43. Something inside him shifted and came to rest, as if it had found its proper place. It was like one of his sister's wooden tumbling puzzles, like the satisfying click it made when all its many turning pieces were perfectly aligned.

Lena Goldfinch

#44. Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

Robert Lanza

#45. People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

Rebecca Eaton

#46. While, naturally, he has to gauge risk, to read the elements, he still often bemoans the hardships of the past. He constantly puzzles over the role of remote influences, like the after-life. He wants to know why events happen as they do, how control is exercised from beyond understanding.

Peter Gray

#47. 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 which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#48. 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

#49. All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

#51. The Sinister 1 freak me out, so creeepy so many mysteries, so many puzzles, so many reverses. This just freak me out...

Deyth Banger

#52. 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

#53. Two puzzles that cannot be solved:
The miracle of birth and misery of death.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names, they can overcharge for their own inferior fluids. There is no trickledown effect in wine prices.

Simon Hoggart

#55. Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.

Theodor Storm

#56. You love trickery."
"I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.

Leigh Bardugo

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

Brian Jacques

#58. One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#59. The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me ... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Frank Dobson

#60. 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 with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler

#61. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

James Joyce

#62. The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.

John Steinbeck

#63. Puzzles don't work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts.

Kim Holden

#64. Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ...

Vera Nazarian

#65. Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

Mark Kozelek

#66. 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

#67. Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

Charles Kingsley

#68. 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

#69. I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sonia Sotomayor

#70. Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit." "Perhaps

Bram Stoker

#71. For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Mohsin Hamid

#72. Weber's achievement was not to definitively answer a riddle but to stake out a territory fertile of new puzzles at the heart of which is the claim that religious forces, not simply economic ones, paved the way for the mentality characteristic of modern, Western capitalism.

Max Weber

#73. It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

Louis Armstrong

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

Rashida Jones

#75. Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Diane Ackerman

#76. Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.

Alex Dow

#77. Life is a series of puzzles; all you have to do is solve the puzzles.

Sam Owen

#78. 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

#79. Wilson has some fancy name for it, but
I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating
line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call
shallamagouslem.

L.M. Montgomery

#80. Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

Thomas Kuhn

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

Derek Landy

#82. There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.

Myka 9

#83. I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.

Hugh Laurie

#84. Maybe if we all just tried to put pieces back together as soon as they fell out of place, the puzzles in our lives would feel more like an accomplishment than a chore

Megan Bostic

#85. Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles.

Colson Whitehead

#86. A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"

Henny Youngman

#87. I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

Tabatha Coffey

#88. Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#89. 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

#90. Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Erno Rubik

#91. Threatening the playable character with physical injury will make platform puzzles easier.

Kirejan Javier

#92. 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

#93. It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Kevin Mitnick

#94. A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

Bertrand Russell

#95. One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

Robert Breault

#96. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we're left unfinished. Sometimes that's for the best. Some pieces can't be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn't be, because they won't make sense.

Adam Silvera

#97. When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

George Carlin

#98. The questions we don't ask become the puzzles we don't solve.

A.J. Darkholme

#99. ...Nothing puzzles God

Chinua Achebe

#100. In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

Amit Ray