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Quotes About Puzzle

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.
~ John Thaw
I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.
~ Sylvia Day
I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience for a mystery. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always on the edge of my seat.
~ Julia Sawalha
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
~ Patricia Cornwell
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
~ Diane Mott Davidson
Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.
~ Eric Maskin
I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.
~ Laura van den Berg
The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart
~ Jeremy Aldana
why our story have no ending?
~ Shivi
I'm not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.
~ Dominic Riccitello
I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don't quite understand.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Why is it that able, public-spirited people produce such different results according to whether they operate in the political or the economic market? Why is it that if a random sample of the people who read this essay and are not at present in Washington were to replace those who are in Washington, our policies would very likely not be improved? That is the real puzzle for me.
~ Milton Friedman
When I listened to her play I felt I should not be in the same room with her. There were hundreds of people but nobody left. It was a private pain. By private I mean to say unknowable. Only the music knew and it held secrets so that her playing was a puzzle, a whisper, and people afterward stood in the bar and drank and said nothing because they were complicit. There were no words.
~ Miriam Toews
The less humans can solve a mystery, the more interesting it becomes
~ Mitch Albom
Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST UVWXYZ And each part has five letters, except the last; but Z is used so seldom that it can be lumped together with Y. I then wrote my real message to Mum
~ Nancy Springer
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Y cómo me ves tú a mí? —Como un misterio. —Ese es el cumplido más raro que me han hecho nunca. —No es un cumplido. Es una amenaza. —¿Y eso? —Los misterios hay que resolverlos, averiguar qué esconden. —A lo mejor te decepcionas al ver lo que hay dentro. —A lo mejor me sorprendo. Y tú también.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle, slightly different from one another but always built with the same pieces, though not in the same order.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And how do you see me?" "Like a mystery." "That's the strangest compliment anyone has ever paid me." "It's not a compliment. It's a threat." "What do you mean?" "Mysteries must be solved, one must find out what they hide." "You might be disappointed when you see what's inside." "I might be surprised. And you, too.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sin más indicio de sus intenciones que una misteriosa sonrisa.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We must be missing something," I said when the van arrived back at the lodge late that afternoon. "We're missing suspects.
~ Carol Ellis
The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
~ Carolyn Keene