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Quotes About Puzzle

In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
~ Robert Wyatt
Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
~ Samantha Bond
I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box.
~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.
~ Daphne Bavelier
I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out.
~ Wes Craven
When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.
~ Erno Rubik
Geography was my best subject but that was only because of the game 'Carmen Sandiego.' I chased her all over the world.
~ Adriano Zumbo
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you've discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents.
~ Megan Abbott
An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
~ Unknown
When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
~ Unknown
Her eyes traveled over the row of Encyclopedia Thaumaturgica, and paused at the gap, one book wide, for volume Q. If Cook threw away volume Q, why is there a gap at all? Shouldn't P and R just be jammed up against each other?
~ Unknown
He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
~ Val McDermid
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~ Unknown
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.
~ Martin Gardner
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
~ Eudora Welty
Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
~ Scott D. Anthony
Mrs. Grace Cahill….
~ Peter Lerangis
A problem is merely a solution waiting to be found.
~ Peter Lerangis
about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn't tell. And if he
~ Peter Robinson
You are dead- what am I speaking to?
~ Philip Pullman
There were mysteries enough without imagining more.
~ Philip Pullman
Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time. You must play the serpent.
~ Philip Pullman
Sometimes, when you run through all of the questions, you have an answer while other times you end up with nothing to show for your effort but the ticklish amusement of flexing your brain.
~ David Gustafson