Top 204 Clues Quotes & Sayings

In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

We try to find the information, the clues, to unlock the play or the story or our characters, especially when they're based on real people that live and breathe.

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination or whatever, you get some clues in the script, of course, but yeah, it was really helpful, and I really like the graphic novel. There's stuff in there, there's a couple things in there I really wanted to use that they couldn't get in the movie, but it's definitely, he's a unique guy, you know, I never read a character like this before.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.