Quotes About Enigma

She shines and nobody knows what to do with her.

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

The moon likes secrets ... and secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.

there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.

People could look and see just a man, but in the same glance, the answer to all their problems.

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One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life - I think vampires are really sexy because there's so much that you don't know about them. There's a lot of mystery.

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I had a vast interest in ghosts and stuff and cryptozoology and every topic that was not normal... if you're reading that stuff at 8 or 9 it has a big impact on you.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.

Natten har kommit in, sötaktig, tvekande. Man ser den inte, men den finns där, den beslöjar lamporna; man andas in någonting tjockt i luften: det är den. (s. 55)

Aleister Crowley