Quotes About Puzzle

I stare up, but whatever riddle is in the stars, I can't read it.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

I think I'm falling for a red herring here,

Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through

He had settled down some now, his rage reduced to a simmer, rather than a boil, but Katie did not want to see it provoked again. She rubbed her arms ruefully, conscious of probable bruises tomorrow, and wondered that she wasn't more shaken than she was. In a strange sort of way, she had found Sacha's anger reassuring, but rather than investigate the meaning of that puzzle, she sought to think of something else.

All these pulls on me that cancel one another out like an algebraic equation I can't solve.

Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child

But it wasn't just the distance. It was what had happened to me since these days, those endless, quiet days when I thought my life would always continue in that way. When my life consisted of small, certain pieces of a larger, but basically simple, puzzle. When I was certain that I always knew where each piece fit.

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

Math problems are good problems to have.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.

Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.

Well, that's the thing about knots, isn't it? If you don't know the trick, it's a muddled predicament. But in fact each loop of every knot is carefully placed, one end twisting into the other in a way you might not have expected. I find them rather beautiful, really.

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Vince shook it playfully. "Maybe it'll help Anderson figure out who the victim is this time," he said. I opened my mouth to say that it didn't seem likely, that Anderson wouldn't figure it out if he had notarized statements from the killer and the victim, and then I closed my mouth and took a step back and didn't say anything at all.

Anna Katharine Green

Ross Macdonald