Quotes About Puzzle

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart

Trenton Lee Stewart

Breakable codes and findable clues. Everything had been done on purpose.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Sign of the twin," Sticky said offhandedly. His eyes widened. "Wait a minute!" "That's right," said Reynie. "I think Mr. Benedict has a long lost brother.

What is wrong with this statement?

I treated that like a sort of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, which is something most women are good at since life is a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle containing several trick two-sided pieces.

Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

be like seeing ghosts or scavengers

frame is a mystery.

To this day, no one knows who Pauline Réage is.

True love, a question for which there is no answer.

The purpose of art is mystery.

All my works are games, serious game.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

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I can give you two words, I tell him. The second is off. Can you guess the first?

What you're saying is that there's no point worrying about the past, because we can't change it? Basically, she nodded, then leant over, one green eye shining brightly, one brown eye gleaming dully. A mortal can drive himself mad thinking about the nature of the universal puzzle. Concern yourself only with the problems of the present and you will get along fine.

Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home. I thought you'd gone to live with her, she said. You used to be a detective: find me a brownish piece shaped something like a snail with a long neck. Piece of duck or puzzle?...

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.

guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.