Quotes About Puzzle

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

No diagnosis, no prognosis.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

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.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.

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

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

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.