Crosswords Quotes

• I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  Damon Lindelof

  New York, Real, Thinking

  "'Prometheus' Writer Damon Lindelof on Why 'Vague' Is Good and the 'Sadistically Cool' Fallout From the 'Lost' Finale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2012.

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

  Stephen Sondheim

  Nice, Idaho, Gambling

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.

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• Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

  Scott D. Anthony

  People, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Games, Three

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• So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Names

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• Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Mind Love, Teeth

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

  Norman Mailer

  Want, Retiring, Puzzles

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• The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

  Keith Preston

  God, Religion, Acres

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• Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Solve, Innovators, Puzzles

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

  Chris Pine

  Girl, Sexy, One Thing

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• Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

  Tori Amos

  Religious, Religion, Doe

  Song: Happy Phantom, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

  Derek Landy

  Retirement, Sleep, Cake

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• You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

  Annie Lennox

  Song, Three, Lines

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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 I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

  Christian Bale

  Lying, Stupid, Achievement

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Impatience

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• I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

  Brian Jacques

  Dog, Enjoy, Completing

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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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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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Perfect, Forever, Answers

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• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Ink, Kind

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• Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for someone else to think of the idea. That's why you should do crossword puzzles later in the day, because other people have thought about the answers. That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestler, Rings

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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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• People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  People, Progress, Should

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