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Quotes About Enigma

The leader was identified by his dental records—why he had them on him, no one was quite sure.
~ Jasper Fforde
The Nursery Crime Division was not disbanded and is still active to this day.
~ Jasper Fforde
Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.
~ Jasper Fforde
She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
~ Jean Cocteau
I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
~ Jeanette Winterson
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Mysterious Words from the Past
~ Jeanne DuPrau
She's like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can't help yourself, you're going to turn in her direction, and she's doing nothing to make this happen.
~ Jeanne Ray
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
~ Philip Guston
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
~ J. J. Abrams
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
~ Michael Korda
I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.
~ Gyles Brandreth
There are so many secrets in our world.
~ Jenna Morasca
And what they found was something no one had ever seen before." "What's that?" "Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.
~ Unknown
She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
~ Tom Waits
Según cómo se mire qué? —preguntó Jared. No estaba seguro de si aquella criatura le resultaba divertida o temible.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Full of mysticism—most of it nonsense and all muddled up—but something in him driving him to know more than a natural man is supposed to know.
~ Tony Hillerman
The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.
~ Tove Jansson
They retained their wooden souls, and the curve of their backs had the enigmatic shape of growth itself and remained a part of the decaying forest
~ Tove Jansson