Quotes About Puzzle

We hear within us the perpetual call: There is the problem. Seek its solution.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

The thing about a trap is you get caught and can't get out. A maze has an exit. You just have to find it.

it's a truth of life that some things are not built so well and they become complicated and they need to be figured out and they're hard to figure out.

It's pathetic how much significance I attach to the Times puzzle, which is easy on Monday and gets progressively harder as the week advances. I'll spend fourteen hours finishing the Friday, and then I'll wave it in someone's face and demand that he acknowledge my superior intelligence. I think it means that I'm smarter than the next guy, but all it really means is that I don't have a life.

he ended his short note with a riddle: v. n. A. 1. de A. o. na. v. e. r. Historians have found it hard enough to transcribe the letters accurately, let alone to understand them. And full interpretation remains elusive.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant.

This empty and deserted house is a vast enigma of which the answer is known to none.

You are trying to be logical. But most of the logic we live with is a lie, and most of our attempts to be logical are only attempts to evade the reality. So if we have a puzzle, stop trying to solve it. Don't cling to thoughts and notions. Let them pass through your mind and then dismiss them—or treat them all with equal indifference. Nothing

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

question they couldn't answer as yet. What mattered to them

He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.

No problem is too difficult to be solved by a theoretician.

Ningún problema es demasiado difícil para ser resuelto por un teórico.

There was no possibility that the animal had leaped the intervening sixty feet to land in the river. The tracks just stopped abruptly.

Not a single person has been caught or charged in the entire thirty-five year history of the phenomenon.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

He would never understand women, he thought. They were life's great mystery.