Quotes About Puzzle

How could something so wrong grow out of something that had started out so right?

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. "It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful.

It was a puzzle why things were always dragged kicking and screaming. No one ever seemed to want to, for example, lead them gently by the hand.

There's a hole in my pocket," Ringo puzzled. "Maybe that's the way out?

Goo-goo, g'joob!

Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in A solution for every fool

wondered if the washer still had dried blood in the crevasses.

She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

She wrapper herself in an enigma, there was no other way to keep warm.

What are you? "A man with a rope?" "Ha-ha.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

I can't help it. All those sharp little shards inside me could be answers, but they've come loose. Now I see them in fragments that don't make any more sense than my nightmares do. Those puzzle pieces are all in there somewhere. I know it.

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.

Commander Keen, Myst, Doom, Diablo, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Leisure Suit Larry, The Colonel's Bequest, Ultima, Warcraft, Monkey Island, The Oregon Trail

A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form.

That's the gamer in you, trying to figure out how you might have beat the level. My brain is treacherous like that, too. But there was nothing you could have done, Ant. The game wasn't winnable.

We are not quite short stories. At

Staring into the half light, the queen struggles with wants and needs to which she can give no names. It is not the willow she desires, nor the rose. It is something else…something that eludes her.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.