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  • I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

    "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.
  • My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

    Reading   Games   Piano  
    "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.
  • 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.

    People   Trying   Cameras  
    "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.
  • Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

    Regret   Games   Three  
  • Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

    Three   Paper   Sometimes  
  • It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

    Book   Writing   Trying  
    "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.
  • Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

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

  • I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

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

  • 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.

    Thinking   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

    Stress   Skills   Numbers  
    Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.
  • Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

    Song: Happy Phantom, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992
  • Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

  • My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

    Friday   Dog   New York  
  • Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

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

    Funny   Humor   Names  
  • One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

  • 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!

    Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.133, Vintage
  • Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

    Fate   Winning   Awards  
  • Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

    Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012
  • If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

    Sports   Fall   People  
  • Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

  • I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

    Dog   Enjoy   Crosswords  
  • I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

    Cat   Night   Sorrow  
    Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books
  • I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

    Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    "'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.
  • I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

    Morning   Coffee   Ideas  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

    "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.
  • 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.

    Song   Three   Lines  
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