Top 1200 Puzzle Piece Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also write a book that's not a piece of art, but that is a book, and it could be a book that was written by an artist.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

I had a big 'New York Times' crossword puzzle phase.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

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

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

All pieces of the puzzle need to fall in the right place to be a champion team.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

Have you ever had a moment where you finish a piece, and then all of a sudden the piece sort of takes on it's own life beyond you? It doesn't happen every time, but there are some pieces where that happens, and I love that. I feel like that's what I'm seeking nowadays, that moment of transcendence with a piece. Where this thing becomes larger than me as a person. It becomes otherworldly, and then I get separated as maker from it, and then it has it's own life. I love that.

Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

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

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

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

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I was always a big fan of 'Quincy,' and I loved the idea of puzzle solving.

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.