Top 95 Puzzle Quotes

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

I do the ‘New York Times’ crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Having worked with so many directors, I liked the look of what they were doing. It seemed to be a lot more creatively satisfying, putting all the parts together, joining the puzzle together, creating the tone of a piece.

If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can’t get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

The puzzle of ‘To the Moon’ is both elegant and memorable. Take a few hours and try to solve it. The pieces fit together oh so nicely.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

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.

I’m a puzzle doer.

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers ‘puzzles.’ I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It’s on the box. And even if I don’t, if it’s a 5,000-piece puzzle of the ‘Mona Lisa’, it’s not like I put the last piece in and go, ‘I had no idea it’s the ‘Mona Lisa’!’

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle – and gives you the same kind of kick.

There’s something about Vonnegut’s deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges’ puzzle structure.

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

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.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‘Why?’ ceaselessly.

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

I was always a big fan of ‘Quincy,’ and I loved the idea of puzzle solving.

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it’s like being able to see the whole puzzle – it’s not just about my role, but the whole script.

We’re pieces of the puzzle. If I fit in a certain algorithm, then it’ll be time for me to go. It’s tough as a baseball player, it really is, not knowing much, but you just have to play.

Coaching is very complex: it’s like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

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.

When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn’t.

I worked a lot on our album cover, and I didn’t just want to post it on our website one day and move on. We wound up breaking it into 18 pieces and hiding them on fan sites all over the Internet and then posting clues, so fans could put together the puzzle.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don’t see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you’re challenged in a different way.

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.

Gravity Falls’ is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

I was just one piece of the puzzle, a very small piece at that. I really enjoyed my time with the Knicks, and we had a great run.

As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.

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

I had a big ‘New York Times’ crossword puzzle phase.

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it’s a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can’t complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.

To me, Alan Turing was a mystery – it was sort of like something I needed to unravel. And he was also obsessed with puzzles. So I wanted to make the movie like a mystery, like a puzzle that you’re piecing together.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it’s done, so there is nothing to look forward to.

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.

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.

I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it’s an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That’s why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn’t affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I’ve got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

I am a woman of many talents and they’re all just pieces of the puzzle that make me and make my career.

I try to figure out the marketing puzzle.

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 feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed.

Being a parent is the toughest thing I’ve ever done. But I’m not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I’m the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

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

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

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.

David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the field, he’s intuitively working out the trajectory of the ball.

One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, ‘Dyad’ takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble.

Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

We need a clear plan to put radical Islamic terrorism out of vogue, and it should be eliminated at its roots. American SOF are part of the puzzle, but they do not, by themselves, complete the picture.

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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.