Quotes About Puzzle

What was the guilty thing?" says Anne-Marie. "What's Prospero done that's so terrible?" "Indeed, what?" Felix asks rhetorically. More of the cast have gathered around. "He doesn't tell us. It's one more puzzle in the play. But The Tempest is a play about a man producing a play—one that's come out of his own head, his 'fancies'—so maybe the fault for which he needs to be pardoned is the play itself.

Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.

I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing, now there were at least a few border pieces in place.

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

What have you seen with your eyes? asked the old woman. What have you seen that you knew should not be there?

So you're saying that demons aren't as smart as angels." "Perhaps they could be," he said, "but their state of mind interferes with their intelligence. It interferes with their observations, and their conclusions. It interferes with everything that they do. Theirs is a hideous predicament. They refuse to admit that they have lost." That was beautiful. I liked it. I liked the puzzle of it and the truth of it.

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

And so there was this enigmatic creature in a good likeness. A creature asking for sympathy.

When you call on les mystéres you don't always know what you're going to get.

The wisdom of the crowd, Aya. If a million people look at a puzzle, chances are that one of them knows the answer. Or maybe ten people each know one piece, and that's enough to put it all together.

Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.

me if you knew something, but you couldn't

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

who are you? really. Nykyrian shrugged. Never figured it out. takes too much time to think about myself, and time is one luxury i don't own. pg.90

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.