Quotes About Puzzle

A popular children's puzzle shows six fishermen whose lines are tangled together to form a sort of maze. One of the lines has caught a fish; the problem is to find which fisherman it belongs to. You are supposed to do this by following each line through the maze, which may take up to six tries, depending on your luck. It is obviously easier to start at the other end and trace the line from the fish to the fisherman, as you have only one possible starting place, not six.

I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

I love the mystery behind things.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

His life was a mystery to her, fabulously rich when he chose to embellish it, but otherwise a blank.

ocean floors everywhere were so comparatively youthful. None had ever been found to be older than about 175 million years, which was a puzzle because continental rocks were often billions of years old.

We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was.

It was all a long time ago and at this stage we just don't know.

an atmosphere ultraviolet rays from the sun, even from a weak sun, would have tended to break apart any incipient bonds made by molecules. And yet right there"—she tapped the stromatolites—"you have organisms almost at the surface. It's a puzzle.

two-thirds of the universe is still missing from the balance sheet

Childe would almost certainly have been fascinated with Çatalhöyük because almost nothing about the place made sense.

At a minimum the name should puzzle foreigners—this is a basic requirement of most British institutions—and ideally it should excite long and inconclusive debate, defy all logical explanation, and evoke images that border on the surreal. Among

Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?

This is a case without a body. The body does not come into it at all.

What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?