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Quotes About Enigma

Alla fine, sotto la sporcizia che le copriva il viso, comparve un vago rossore.
~ Winston Graham
Life is like a box of chocolates.
~ Winston Groom
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
~ Winston S. Churchill
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Remarkable. A hanged bird. A hanged sparrow. The eccentricity of it clamored with a loud voice and pointed to a human hand that had torn into the thicket—but who? Who hanged it, why, for what reason? .
~ Witold Gombrowicz
When I die, my first question to the devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant
~ Wolfgang Pauli
One should no more rack one's brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.
~ Wolfgang Pauli
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
~ Woody Allen
El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.
~ Woody Allen
the only Raj they managed to get was a
~ Yann Martel
Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But I can't. I quite literally can't. Because, don't you see, what I know is what I am? And I can't tell you that. You have to find it out for yourself. I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
~ Christopher Isherwood
It's a natural law (or supernatural, if you're so inclined) that weird things appear where people tend to disappear. African jungles, Pacific islands, Himalayan wastelands—wherever expeditionary parties go missing, that's where lost species, Stonehengey stone idols, the flitting shadows of yetis, and ancient, unsurrendering Japanese soldiers are sure to pop up. The
~ Christopher McDougall
Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen
~ Unknown
Science, you don't know, looks like magic.
~ Christopher Moore
Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.
~ Christopher Priest
Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslapt? ir kamuojasi d?l jos taip niekada ir nepriart?dami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.
~ Christopher Priest
It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.
~ Chuck Klosterman
What...what are you?" she asked. "I'm Batman.
~ Chuck Wendig
Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.
~ Claire LaZebnik
And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.
~ Claire LaZebnik
There are truths I haven't even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.
~ Clarice Lispector
I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.
~ Clarice Lispector