Puzzles Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Party, Silly, Kids

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• A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

  Anna Quindlen

  World, Stores, Always Working

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

  Michio Kaku

  Ideas, Two, Consciousness

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Enjoy, Melody

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

  Andrew McMahon

  Hard Times, Feels, Connecting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think people moving through space and the way they say lines, it's a puzzle to be solved every time. But there's a right way to do it that feels natural. And it's just kind of finding that right thing.

  Timothy Miller

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

  Jon Connor

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Roles, Significant

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• Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, Book, People

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

  Steve Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Challenges

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

  Erica Enders-Stevens

  Team, People, Important

  Source: www.draglist.com

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• Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

  Prince Charles

  Humility, Men, Thinking

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• In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Stupid, People

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

  Felix Adler

  People, Diversity, House

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• I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.

  Andy Cohen

  Falling In Love, Finals, Pieces

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• Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

  Sarah Kay

  Ideas, Way, Strategy

  Source: journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Heaven, Approval

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• 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

  Optimism, Empathy, Secret

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• I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

  Marco Beltrami

  Fun, Thinking, Musical

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• Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

  Cindy Ross

  Distance, Home, Adventure

  Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.187, Mountaineers Books

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• Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

  Grant Heslov

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

  Juliette Lewis

  Different, Pieces, Tvs

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

  Judy Blume

  Together, Pieces, Firsts

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

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• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Trying, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

  Erik Parker

  Song, Different, Albums

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

  Oliver Harris

  Missing, Pieces, Might

  Source: bigother.com

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