Puzzle Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

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

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.