Quotes About Puzzle

If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

In the end, no one knew what caused madness.

ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases... ("Gas Station Carnival")

Y]ou are a puzzle to me and if I could solve that puzzle I could solve the puzzle of America.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

There is a certain nostalgia to the idea of Unsolved Mysteries.'

I read a lot of detective novels.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, parallelogram! and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That

When I was far from Füsun, the world troubled me; it was a puzzle whose pieces were all out of place. The moment I saw her, they all fit back together, reminding me that the world was a beautiful, meaningful whole where I could relax.

The Apache wrenched his pony's head around and when Glanton spun to look at his men he found them frozen in deadlock with the savages, they and their arms wired into a construction taut and fragile as those puzzles wherein the placement of each piece is predicated upon every other and they in turn so that none can move for bringing down the structure entire.

Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo! -Bobby Pendragon

If Pierre buys a horse for two hundred francs and Jacques buys a mule for a hundred and forty, and the two enter into a partnership and decide to trade their creatures for a piece of land that costs four hundred and eighty francs, then how long will it take a lame Frenchman to borrow a silk umbrella?

TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.

Ah, that picture, it will always haunt me," he says, then pauses and smiles his impish grin. "But she never figured out it was a helix."1

was born to be an investigator. For me it was like putting together a three-dimensional, naturalistic puzzle that in the end would be an exact representation of the real world. From the deep bottom

The sun is out and the game's afoot