Puzzles Quotes - Page 13

• I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Moving, Writing, Editing

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• BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.

  Phillipe Nover

  Mma, Trying, Humbling

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• As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feels

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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• Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Forever, What If, Dying

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

  Criss Jami

  Fun, Passion, Writing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

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• Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doubt, Information, Temples

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Art, Together, Able

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Skills, Numbers

  Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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• 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

  Tired, Blessing, Boredom

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Giving, Frustrated, Answers

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

  Viola Davis

  Artist, Together, Mixtures

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• Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Wise, Fun, Lying

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Stars, Moving

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• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Sleep, Autumn, Artist

  Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Plates

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• Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

  Tom Kenny

  People, Trying, Cameras

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mother, Fun, Memories

  "It Started With A Guy In Overalls". Interview with Satoru Iwata, www.nintendo.co.uk.

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• Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

  Joss Whedon

  Littles, Bigger, Solve

  "No. 1 Fan Joss Whedon on 'Veronica Mars'". ew.com. October 11, 2005.

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• You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Love You, Dark

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• Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

  Steve Tisch

  Hollywood, Pieces, Mouths

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• May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

  Garth Nix

  Trying, Pieces, May

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

  Cathy Ladman

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Sky, Pieces

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• I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Jobs, Data, Narrative

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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