Puzzle Quotations

I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble.

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.

I think different games have a different chemical release in your brain as far as reward goes. I like making puzzle games, just because I know I'm kinda good at it, and they really are superfun to work on.

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

We're going to do anything we can do to try to piece this puzzle together.

We're putting together the pieces of the puzzle of how people who have been gone for hundreds of years lived. You make your best guess on what you can find and we're finding a lot.

We're still calling on consumers to be prudent in their use of gasoline. It's just a complicated jigsaw puzzle we're putting back together.

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

We've got good leadership and chemistry on this team. That's something our team lacked the first two years. There's still a couple of pieces of the puzzle needed to push us across the top. Rome wasn't built overnight, but I truly believe we can pull this thing off tonight.

We want to reach every community and every work place so that people will understand that stigma is just a piece of this puzzle that needs to go away.

We also share in the belief we do have what it takes in this locker-room and there's no great piece of the puzzle out there we're missing.

We really feel the hospital is the last piece of the puzzle to make Pahrump an attractive place for people who commute to Las Vegas and, of course, to benefit the people who live there now. It's kind of the last thing the city needed.

We use every fraction of a millimeter of space to get things in there. It's like a puzzle to fit all that stuff together. It has the tightest tolerances of anything we've ever made in the history of this company.

When you bring a guy in like Santana, you have to make sure he's taken care of and he's going to get the number of catches and balls that a guy that they brought in deserves, ... For him it was good and for me to come back to the situation I'm in, I'm not a featured guy, but I'm a piece of the puzzle in this offence and there's opportunity for me to make plays and help this team win.

There are many different pieces of this giant puzzle that need to come together. The pieces that must come together include installation of ticket terminals, training retailers, testing software applications and so much more. There are many people working very hard behind the scenes in such areas as administration, finance, sales and computers to help raise money for education and make this historical event happen. In addition, numerous state agencies are providing assistance to us, as necessary.

We're excited about what we have already, but we feel getting that last piece of the puzzle will put us over the hump. We want to make sure that he's healthy and ready to give us everything he can give us. We're definitely excited to get him back in the lineup, without a doubt.

She's real task-oriented. I ask her to do something and she's already done it. She's a big piece of the puzzle around here.

Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five years Ive been here. Shes another important piece of a puzzle thats almost complete.

She's going to be another huge piece of the puzzle to replace, too.

Simon brings a wealth of experience and grit to our midfield. He has shown he can produce at this level and we are looking forward to his contributions both on and off the field. This is another piece of the puzzle as we build our team for 2004.

She has a big load on her shoulders. But I think she's doing a tremendous job trying to keep us together. She has stepped up on that floor and off that floor as a leader. She's a critical part of us putting the pieces of the puzzle back together.

No one should ever feel bad about themselves when the hot guy talks to the ugly girl instead. There's nothing wrong with you. I'm sure you looked like a certified 20 and your cleavage was noteworthy. Don't go home and cry because, "no one even looked at you". I've solved this disturbing puzzle and here's the bottom line- She was drunk, he was horny. She was easy, and he'll just hit it from the back so he doesn't have to look at her ugly face.

Personally, I think they should have a better record than what they do, but obviously things just weren't going right and they're going to see if Sergei can be part of the puzzle to help them get going in the right direction.

Catching terrorists is sometimes like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the picture on the box, ... This is a guy who knows the picture on the box. He knows what the big picture is.

Building a business intelligence strategy without a complete EIM solution is like trying to complete a puzzle without all the pieces.

I feel like whatever team I do go to, I can help out a lot. If I were about to go to Houston and they already have a great quarterback and a great receiver, maybe it's just the little piece to the puzzle that they're missing.

I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.

From a personal standpoint, I hate to lose Roman; he's got a great future ahead of him. From a team standpoint, we need to make moves that can fit in like a piece in a puzzle. Kyle Farnsworth fits in a little better into our puzzle right now.

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

I enjoy the process, the game, trying to solve the puzzle on who's going to win the race.

For me, this was the last piece of a complicated puzzle that involved building a ballpark and redeveloping San Diego. I think this was our most significant signing in the 11 years I've owned the team.

We talked about roles and everybody does something well and that's why they are on the floor and if it's not scoring believe me it's something else. All the parts to the puzzle are critical.

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Going into the season, we had a lot of unknowns. We've had to be able to try and figure out the pieces to the puzzle as the season has progressed.

Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.

He's arguably going to be one of the most talented players in the league. He's like a wild card. He's had great playoff success and he can be a huge piece of the puzzle coming down the stretch. We need him to come in here and provide us with that extra offensive spark.

He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.

He just started putting it all together. For them, it's a puzzle sometimes and he had to get the pieces and put them in the right place, and he's very close to completing the puzzle.

I think it's hard for anyone out there to imagine what this has been like for us. It's a puzzle and there are all these pieces missing. Any time we can fill in that puzzle, it may help us get to the truth and justice for Jill.

I think that we can play better, but we played well enough to win. We are very young and we made some youthful mistakes, but the effort was solid. The puzzle isn't quite complete yet, but this is a step in the right direction.

It is a new piece in the puzzle on complex body weight regulation.

Jen did some good things for us tonight. She needed a game like this to test her and to see what she was made of. Jamie played well too. Obviously we're disappointed about missing a key piece to our puzzle in Lindsay, but we can't hang our heads. We feel like we still have a quality team with players that are still able to win a championship.

Over the past few years, this team has done some tremendous things, and hopefully I can be the piece of that puzzle to move them a little further. I missed out on a Super Bowl ring last year, and I'm very excited about being here, because I think the possibility of obtaining one here is beyond our wildest dreams.

Our coach feels it's the last piece of the recruiting puzzle he needs to stay competitive with the big boys as a legitimate top-25 contender.

Nashville was a tough call. I've always wanted to work in this district. I knew an opportunity would come along in this district and all the puzzle pieces fell right for me.

My reaction as the chief negotiator is that we're disappointed. It's a puzzle to us why they would call for a strike vote while we're still in mediation.

I think people call him crazy because he's really passionate and energetic and uncompromising, ... and those are qualities you don't really see a lot in Hollywood. It doesn't feel like this bizarre puzzle that only he has the keys to.

I tell the guys all the time there are many pieces to the puzzle here. Our pitching is pretty good, and they will get better with more game experience. I think offensively we will get better through the course of the rest of the season and again, that is where the depth of our team comes into play.

I think Joe's worth every bit of being a max player in this league. He's proven that with his play. But just like he was in Phoenix, he's a piece to the puzzle here. Joe Johnson is a big part of that puzzle. He has to be a big focal point.

It is difficult to find any part of the economic puzzle that would lead you to be less confident about the full-year 2006 outlook than you were six months ago.

We were very flat in the beginning, but we made a miraculous comeback. We could have won that game. We are slowly moving in the right direction, the only piece of the puzzle that is missing is the discipline...we still take too many penalties.

We have some nice pieces to put into the puzzle and a lot of kids who are willing to work to fill the rest of the spots in.

We have a lot of speed. We just have to put the puzzle pieces together.

We have a lot of hurdles to overcome, but there's a definite light in the tunnel here. Are we satisfied with what's happened (this season)? Absolutely not. But more and more pieces of the puzzle are in place.

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.

We are now devoting ourselves to science. I am afraid some of us feel that science will give us final solutions - better bases for philosophy, an ideal groundwork for satisfactions, for enjoyment. But it is doubtful whether the mind of man can ever understand the universe. For every puzzle that we uncover and solve, two more appear that were hidden.

The preliminary motive appears to be some type of argument, maybe over some prescriptions. We are still interviewing some people and still trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

To be considered a piece of the puzzle in the future of this team means a lot to me.

We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.

We're just going to see if we can make the puzzle fit together . . . we'll just have to take it a step at a time.

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

We're trying to find the piece to the puzzle on the left side of the offence. He's a young player with a bright future so we're excited to have him.

We're trying to fill in gaps so we have as complete a puzzle as possible.

We think we've added another top-line piece of the puzzle and a great talent. To get a guy like this I feel very blessed. There are many ways that this guy can help our team win basketball games.

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

We're improving, but at this stage, we need to start putting the pieces of the puzzle together. We are heading into the second half of camp which is a critical part of the development of this football team.

We need to get our returning guys better and we have to recruit players who will make us better. Hopefully, we can add pieces to the puzzle to this group.

Turlock was a very seasoned team. We've only been going for about a week. I'm very proud of my guys. We're still putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child's problems.

(Today) will be a big day because we'll get the results, get the report, one of our shoulder guys is coming in from Chicago. We'll be able to put all the pieces of the puzzle that we got together.

While this may be the most theatrical moment of the trial, it will be only one piece of a much larger puzzle when everyone is looking back at (closing argument) time.

We all said our ultimate goal was to get back there and win. You could see each piece of the puzzle fitting into place. The biggest piece is still sitting out there and that's the national championship.

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.

We got a great start today. Putting a team together is kind of like a puzzle, so now we're starting to put that puzzle together.

With him, it's like we're one big happy family again. It's like the puzzle is complete.

We had the choice of a lot of drivers but Craig fits exactly what we need to go for a win at Petit. We needed a driver that was fast, wouldn't make mistakes, that could race with anyone and bring the car home in one piece. Most importantly, we wanted someone that could fit into our team. Craig is a team player. We know he won't come in and disrupt the balance that we have here. He'll contribute to the overall success of this program just as he always has. Everybody on the team is really excited about having Craig racing with us at Petit. He is exactly the piece to the puzzle that we needed.

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

We expect productivity growth to moderate, and compensation gains and unit labor costs to pick up. Just another piece of the puzzle that points toward more Fed tightening than the market currently expects.

This new research is a new piece of the puzzle in the complex system of bodyweight regulation.

Boy, did he come through in the second half. He's that missing piece of the puzzle we didn't have last year. If people think we don't have anything but Antonio, they're definitely missing the boat.

A trial is like a jig-saw puzzle and closing argument is when the lawyers put the pieces together.

Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.

Each time we do a successful operation it allows us to slap new pieces of the puzzle in, ... We get a clearer picture. We're able to get more information.

There's no silver bullet, there's no silver lining. But it's another piece of the puzzle we're trying to put together.

There's no economic puzzle here. Where there's money to be made, there will be people out to make it. Where some gamers are playing for fun, others are pursuing a new kind of day-trading game and those two factions are trying to co-exist.

There's nothing we can do about it. It's a loss for sure and it's an important piece of the puzzle but it shouldn't be a distraction. He's getting the best care that he can right now and we have our fingers crossed that he's going to be all right.

I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

The situation with the yen is a very strong economic story which hasn't translated into a stronger currency. The one missing piece of the puzzle was the fact that Japanese investors were investing more abroad. Any sign that they're investing less overseas is good for the yen.

The testing that I do at the combine is just one of the pieces of the puzzle that NFL teams look at.