Quotes About Enigma

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And when you reach the scene of the crime—Macavity's not there!

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

at half eleven in the evening. You will receive further instructions there.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye. For the clear voice suddenly singing, high up in the convent wall,

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads. The writing on the walls spells out trick questions, and as a man, you must know that you cannot reason your way out.

Something shadowy and female happened between them, as mysterious and primal as witches' brew.

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads.

La superstición nace de la incultura. Sin embargo, muchísimas cosas serán siempre un misterio para el hombre.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery. There's something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy ... bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That's why they're so hard to get over.

the three-rotor encoding machine that all the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) ships and subs at sea use in lieu of the Enigma.

There were no other conspicuous orifices; perhaps their mouth was their anus too. Those sorts of questions would have to wait.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.