Puzzles Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Together, Pieces

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• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Together, Wheels

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• Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

  Susan Meiselas

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Missing, Pieces

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• Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  Song: Men And Women, Album: Words Words Words

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• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  Aaron Stanford

  Giving, Shows, Solutions

  "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

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• 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. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Years, Indulge In, Interesting

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.11, Knopf

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Time, Philosophy, Lying

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

  Sarada Devi

  Mind, Inquiry, Distraction

  "Women Saints of East and West". Book by Swami Ghanananda, June 1, 1979.

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• Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

  Robert Burns

  Book, Simple, Men

  'Sketch' inscribed to Charles James Fox (1800)

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• Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Time, Writing, Thinking

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• What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the state of modern medicine: It has lost the sense of the unity of man. Such is the price it has paid for its scientific progress. It has sacrificed art to science.

  Paul Tournier

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Order, Dinner, Waitress

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• Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Pieces, One Piece, Carrie

  Lawrence Kushner (1998). “Eyes remade for wonder: a Lawrence Kushner reader”, Jewish Lights Pub

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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Toys

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

  Niall Williams

  Three, World

  Niall Williams (2010). “As It Is in Heaven”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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

  Albert Einstein

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Military, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Mean, Home

  "Original Essay" by Sasha Cagen, quirkyalone.net. July 2000.

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• We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

  Richard Leakey

  Men, Light, Connections

  "A Wealth of Human Fossils Could Soon Be Destroyed". Interview with Stefan Aust and Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2005.

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• I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, People, Important

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• Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

  Kyle

  Together, Pieces, Shapes

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• 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

  Believe, Research, Normal

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.234, University of Chicago Press

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