Puzzle Quotes

• I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Writing
  • End
  • Puzzle

• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writing
  • High
  • Drama

• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Never
  • China
  • Puzzle

• Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Silk
  • Reel
  • Knot

• My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Picture
  • Albums
  • Puzzle

• It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Senses

• To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Customers
  • Publisher
  • Bestseller

• We have before us all the pieces of the puzzle that it takes to make a worm. Now we need to figure out how it works.

  

  Bob Waterston
  • Need
  • Works
  • Puzzle

• I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Earth

• 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 Queen
  • Heaven
  • Approval
  • Puzzle

• It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Really
  • Take

• Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Resonance

• Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.

  

  Brannon Braga
  • Mystery
  • Episode
  • Provides

• Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

  

  Mike Will Made It
  • Record
  • Puzzle
  • Putting

• I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Remember
  • Think
  • I Wonder

• I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

  

  Josh McDermitt
  • Life
  • Surprised
  • Puzzle

• Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

  

  Josh McDermitt
  • Life
  • Together
  • Put

• Where do you think I was today? I stood straight in front of him (Himmler) for a whole hour and talked, and he... he played with a puzzle the whole time – you know, this glass cube with three balls on the inside... When I finished, he took off his pince-nez, wiped it with a handkerchief – he has a skull even on his handkerchief – and said, "Listen, Ernst! Have you by any chance, ever had a dream, where you're riding in the back of a ragged truck to who knows where, and some monsters are sitting around you?" I didn’t say anything. Then he smiled and said, "Ernst, you know, I know as well as you that no astral exists. But what do you think, if you, and even Canaris, have your own people in 'Annenerbe', shouldn’t I have my own people there as well?" I did not understand what he meant. "Think Ernst, think!" he said. I kept silent. Then he smiled and asked, "Whose man do you think is Kröger?" …Yes, Emma... It seems I'm too simple for all these intrigues... But I know that while the Führer needs me, my heart will keep beating...You know, Emma... Sometimes it seems to me, that it's not me who is alive, but it's the Führer who is living inside me...

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Think
  • Chance
  • Truck

• 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
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Puzzle

• Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set a precedent for players like me and how important we can be to teams. That was something I was happy to do as well, you know? Sometimes players like me are maybe overlooked or not looked at as an important piece to the puzzle, but it was something I wanted to prove and wanted to show.

  

  Brandon Prust
  • Players
  • Prove
  • Teams

• I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.

  

  Erica Enders-Stevens
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Beginning
  • Film
  • End

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