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  • Our whole life is solving puzzles. -- Erno Rubik
  • Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. -- Maya Lin
  • The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. -- Erno Rubik
  • When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't. -- Bo Burnham
  • Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly. -- Alister E. McGrath
  • I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. -- James Joyce
  • Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in. -- Edward Kasner
  • Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • Beneath it allI kept faith with Ithaca, travelled,Travelled and travelled,Suffering much, enjoying a little;Met strange people singingNew myths; made myths myself.But this lion of the seaSalt-maned, scaly, wondrous of tail,Touched with power, insistentOn this brief promontory...Puzzles. -- Edwin Thumboo
  • Golf is a puzzle without an answer. -- Gary Player
  • The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. -- Douglas Horton
  • Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. -- Lewis Carroll
  • Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one. -- Stuart Duncan
  • I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces. -- Josh McDermitt
  • I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.' -- Demetri Martin
  • A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. -- Erno Rubik
  • Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. -- Charles Lamb
  • Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. -- Gary Player
  • 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
  • It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. -- Louis Armstrong
  • It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. -- Michael J. Fox
  • We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle. -- Joko Beck
  • My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always. -- Caroline Knapp
  • A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer. -- Brett Hull
  • Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. -- Charles Lamb
  • One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles. -- Chris Pine
  • My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. -- Bill Gates
  • My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely. -- Lisa Gardner
  • I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused. -- Terry Bradshaw
  • People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore. -- Roberta Williams
  • Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. -- Robert Lanza
  • Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail. -- Graeme Base
  • You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize. -- Gary Coleman
  • Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. -- Jack Kevorkian
  • Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. -- Thomas Kuhn
  • I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. -- Hugh Laurie
  • When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. -- Noam Chomsky
  • My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. -- Meg Wolitzer
  • 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. -- Betty White
  • You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' -- Harlan Coben
  • I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.' -- Betty White
  • ...Nothing puzzles God -- Chinua Achebe
  • Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books. -- Betty Smith
  • Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles. -- Scott D. Anthony
  • Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve. -- Kathy Reichs
  • I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. -- Brian Jacques
  • Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid. -- Larry Ellison
  • There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous. -- Max Maven
  • Dare to ask questions and seek answers to the puzzles of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles -- Norman Mailer
  • Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. -- Mason Cooley
  • Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. -- James Gleick
  • I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. -- Lisa Loeb
  • Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. -- Diane Ackerman
  • Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. -- Richelle Mead
  • Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones. -- Joss Whedon
  • Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win. -- Michael Jai White
  • In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving. -- Amit Ray
  • People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles. -- Rebecca Eaton
  • My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends. -- Rashida Jones
  • I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. -- Neil Patrick Harris
  • If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. -- Erno Rubik
  • I never get bored, because there's always different puzzles, I'm wearing different clothes, there's different contestants, there's different prizes. -- Vanna White
  • My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits. -- Emily Murdoch
  • I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story. -- Ti West
  • Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge. -- Scott D. Anthony
  • The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink. -- Frank Dobson
  • I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once. -- Graham Nelson
  • One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. -- Robert Breault
  • But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake. -- Derek Landy
  • Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. -- Richard Schiff
  • As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets. -- Bonnie Bassler
  • When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. -- George Carlin
  • He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them. -- Julia Quinn
  • This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles. -- Haruki Murakami
  • There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. -- Stanley Kubrick
  • Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives -- Michael Behe
  • each day's life comes with lot of puzzles, mysteries to unravel; being so conscious of life can make one so unconscious of life -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  • Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all... -- Vera Nazarian
  • What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. -- Agnes Repplier
  • Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all -- Vera Nazarian
  • It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? -- Dizzy Dean
  • Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. -- Sophie Hannah
  • For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance. -- Mohsin Hamid
  • A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!" -- Henny Youngman
  • I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle. -- Josh McDermitt
  • Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. -- Maria Goeppert Mayer
  • Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. -- Maria Goeppert Mayer
  • The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. -- Daniel H. Pink
  • 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. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.... -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world. -- Bill Hybels
  • Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know. -- Howard Markel
  • Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • 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
  • It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that. -- Paul Muldoon
  • Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. -- Helen Frankenthaler
  • If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles. -- Bill Gates
  • I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing. -- Catherine Keener
  • By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial. -- Edsger Dijkstra
  • I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever. -- Andy Richter
  • An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful. -- Roberta Williams
  • But don't you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It's hatred that puzzles me. I don't comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. -- Sigmund Freud
  • Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility. -- Alex Dow
  • 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
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