Quotes About Puzzle

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

I decided the things I enjoyed were quizzes and television, so I decided to find a way to combine them.

It's fun when you're confusing people.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR'S

Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction

Hotchkiss lock

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

searched for clues and fingerprints. But I will be kind to

What's causin' all this?

So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?

He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.

system. The automatic

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple.

I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.

Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants. So, really, I saved the day, he decided. Wait a minute, Amy said, I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm. Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.

It's a Thing thing. You wouldn't understand.

Who wrote that? Kitty had

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

Too many students, both graduate and undergraduate, think that the aim of education is to memorize settled answers to someone else's questions. It is not. It is to learn to find your own answers to your own questions. To do that, you must learn to wonder about things, to let them puzzle you--particularly things that seem most commonplace.

L-A-B-Y-R-I-N-T-H.