Puzzles Quotes

• Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

  Luanne Rice

  Space, Missing, Pieces

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

  Erno Rubik

  Curiosity, Determined, Curious

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• Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Intellectual

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• When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

  David Byrne

  Falling In Love, Love You, Missing

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• 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

  Time, Worry, Grace

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• A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

  Erno Rubik

  Lying, Problem, Clear

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  "Oceans of Wisdom". Book by J. T. Linda, p. 91, April 23, 2013.

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• Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

  Charles Lamb

  Time, Science, Thinking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 36

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• If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

  Crawford Kilian

  Hard Work, Needs, Work Harder

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• 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

  Friday, Dog, New York

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

  Chris Pine

  Girl, Sexy, Crosswords

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• Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Success, Art

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.13, Bibliolis Books

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• People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

  Rebecca Eaton

  People, Smarter

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Together, Done, Next

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. 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

  Long, Effort, Feelings

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• Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

  Jodi Picoult

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Hands, Pieces

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• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Answers

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

  Paul Lockhart

  Opportunity, Problem, Solve

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• Our whole life is solving puzzles.

  Erno Rubik

  Gambling, Jigsaw Puzzles, Cubes

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• 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

  Writing, Way, Arguing

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

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• From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

  Georges Perec

  Moving, Jigsaw Puzzles, Games

  Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House

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• 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

  Golf, Years, Games

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• 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

  Appreciate, Giving, Together

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• 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

  Answers, Causes, Misery

  "Everyday Zen: Love and Work" by Charlotte J. Beck, HarperCollins, (p. 12), October 6, 2009.

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