Puzzle Makers

Hockey is a tough game. - Bobby Orr

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. - Gary Player

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. - Richard P. Feynman

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. - Richard Dawkins

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. - Jimmy Breslin

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

Life is a game show where the people who enjoy it are the winners. - Orson Bean

This is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air. - Curt Gowdy

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

It's a game that will ultimately be decided by the final outcome. - Martin Tyler

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle. - Eric Davis

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers

No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning. - George Carlin

Marriage is very difficult. It's like a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky. - Cathy Ladman

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old. - Groucho Marx

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. - Adrian Belew

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

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. - Shannon L. Alder

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was important, like a league game. - Dick Butkus

The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little - it's the way you play them that counts. - Unknown

I have a Rubik's Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. - Jarod Kintz

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. When you finish it, it says 'go outside'. - Demetri Martin

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope

I'm going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here. - Roy Acuff

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

Relationships are about give and take; not tit-for-tat. If you're keeping score, you'll lose at your own game. - Faydra D. Fields

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

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

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M Pirsig

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. - Cindy Ross

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever. - Plato

From lessening negativity to boosting creativity, hiking in fresh air actually boosts brain power and can help certain parts of the brain grow. - Meredith Carey

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. - Biz Stone

I've missed more than 9,000 shots. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

How much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar. - Joe Torre

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan