Jigsaw Puzzles Quotes

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Deepak Chopra

Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

"Oceans of Wisdom". Book by J. T. Linda, p. 91, April 23, 2013.

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life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Terry McMillan

Life Is Like, Together, Pieces

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Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.

Vera Nazarian

Tests, Limits, Facts

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Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Erno Rubik

Gambling, Cubes, Life Is

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I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

Demetri Martin

Funny, Im Sorry, Witty

"Comedy Central Presents/ Demetri Martin". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

Henry Winkler

Blue, Sky, Acting

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Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

Jodi Picoult

Hands, Pieces, Lasts

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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

Gaetano Salvemini

History, Imagination, Pieces

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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

Truth, Honesty, Together

SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

M. C. Escher

Education, Art, Two

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So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Conrad Veidt

Together, Stories, Pieces

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The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Erno Rubik

Cubes, Problem, Puzzles

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Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Cathy Ladman

Sky, Pieces, Difficult

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Diane Ackerman

Couple, Touching, Together

Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Simon Sinek

Giants, Pieces, Messengers

Source: advisor.tv

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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Orson Welles

Men, Thinking

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

Thom Yorke

People, Special, Trying

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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

Missing, Pieces, Mysterious

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

Diane Ackerman

Inspirational, Couple, Two

Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

Georges Perec

Moving, Games, Trying

Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House

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My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.

Richard Grossman

Book, Creating, Space

Source: www.raintaxi.com

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The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

Robert Adams

Effort, Pieces, Each Day

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing, Literature, Linear

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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Jon Postel

Writing, Class, Guy

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Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

Brian May

Heaven, Approval, Made

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