Quotes About Puzzles

Men do not like puzzles, Barnabas. They prefer categories. It is far easier to slip a piece of information into a known slot than to puzzle over the unknown.

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander –

Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for 20 minutes, miss your stop and then fail to get home in time to say goodnight to the kids.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

Franklin W. Dixon

Franklin W. Dixon

The boys hurried to the Hardys' convertible. A red glow of sunset suffused

balls. Those, and the stacked rifles, may have referred to the

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

one. It's the kind of really hard question that comes at the end of the Raven's.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

The great power of adopting a scientific approach to human behavior is the ability to unmask deep puzzles about human existence that otherwise hide in plain sight.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

I had a big 'New York Times' crossword puzzle phase.

I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

The biggest challenges are fixing the problems, to put all the puzzles together.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

I can do some of the number puzzles.