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Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day. -- Raymond E. Feist
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.' -- Demetri Martin
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. -- Lewis Black
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. -- Deepak Chopra
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together. -- Henry Winkler
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. -- Conrad Veidt
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. -- Jon Postel
You have no right to make jigsaws of people. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky. -- Cathy Ladman
When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore -- J. K. Rowling
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle. -- John Scalzi
life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece! -- Terry McMillan
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden. -- Michael Winner
I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual. -- Stephen Sondheim
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard. -- Brian May
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle. -- Janine di Giovanni
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day. -- Robert Adams
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. -- Ken Jennings
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. -- Ken Jennings
To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story. -- Imelda Staunton
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable. -- Sigmund Freud
Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out. -- Tobin Bell
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. -- Ashwin Sanghi
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults. -- J. G. Ballard
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are. -- Richard Grossman
It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw. -- Carole Bouquet
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do. -- Nancy Gibbs
Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play. -- Jessie Cave
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture. -- Martin Rees
We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone. -- Daniel Handler
Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. -- Stephen Merchant
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created. -- Jacob Bronowski
I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great. -- Tobin Bell
Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky. -- Cathy Ladman
Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece. -- Henny Youngman
I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle. -- Simon Sinek
Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle -- Jodi Picoult
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. -- Diane Ackerman
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40, 000 pieces. When you finish it, it says 'go outside'. -- Demetri Martin
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. -- Gaetano Salvemini
I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw. -- Jackie French
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work. -- Chrissie Hynde
Thereâ??s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I donâ??t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when theyâ??re all the same shade of gray. -- Ann Aguirre
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture. -- Jyoti Arora
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children .[p. 15] -- Diane Ackerman
I love the casting process. It's a clichÃ© but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together. -- David Michod
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. -- Markus Zusak
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains. -- M. C. Escher
When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but i persevered because like you trying to a do a nine- piece jigsaw puzzle, it was a labor of love. -- Tina Fey
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There's no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed. -- Susan Meiselas

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