Quotes About Riddles

Q: Why didn't 4 like 5? A: Because he was odd.

Q: What's invisible and smells of worms? A: Bird farts.

the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions

Zum zweiten faszinierte euch das Denken, das so quälend nahe, weil in der Introspektion gegeben ist, und so rätselhaft, weil es sich eurem Zugriff wirksamer entzieht als die Sterne.

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply.

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave.

What serves on either side, and if you wish to hide, may protect you from your foe, or show him where to go?

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

You must be there with me, Atalanta. I wouldn't be able to say a word if I was alone with him. And we must see him secretly. If my father knew, he'd lock me up again." Again? I wanted to ask what she meant, but with Medea, perhaps there were some riddles better left unanswered.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.

She remembered Grace telling her about Lorcan's evasiveness when she'd first joined the Noctourne-his ability to speak without saying anything, to talk in riddles. He's a conundrum, thought Cheng Li. A walking, talking conundrum

All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.

One of the dangers in trying to solve riddles is a temptation to force answers where they don't belong because things would look neat and pretty that way.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

Over and over the question addressed to Jesus arises in the history of the church: 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' Jesus' answer seems so non-committal, so evasive: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Luke 13:23f.). But this evasiveness is only apparent. This is the answer to this question. As long as we see only in a mirror, in riddles, many questions will remain unanswered, But this question has been answered, once for all time.

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed, Lev. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

I call that ambiguity," I said. "Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same things. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity.