Puzzle Quotes

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

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

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

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 modern man.

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

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'