Quotes About Enigma

Voynich Manuscript

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,

Magic," Core responded, "is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the observer

Even his name remained mysterious. Just Shane. Nothing else. We never knew whether that was his first name or last name or, indeed, any name that came from his family. "Call me Shane," he said, and that was all he ever said. But I conjured up all manner of adventures for him, not tied to any particular time or place, seeing him as a slim and dark and dashing figure coolly passing through perils that would overcome a lesser man.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.

Magic, after all, is no more than the product of knowledge others don't share.

Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed remnants of a rainbow?

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Krohan but from that distance he sounded almost

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

queria saber apenas para onde vão os piolhos dos decapitados. Um enigma.

How could a woman who was that beautiful, who smelled that good, who had such perfectly lovely teeth and bright eyes, be so thoroughly, completely, entirely, stark raving mad?" ~ Robert Cameron

Stanton stood behind her, dressed in black, his shaggy blond hair hanging in his eyes. He was handsome in a dangerous way that made her want to stare forever in his intense blue eyes.

Not until the twenty-first century did the British government finally acknowledge officially that the Poles had indeed played a role in breaking Enigma. On July 12, 2001, a monument commemorating their contribution was installed on the grounds of Bletchley Park, Even so, it hardly did justice to the seminal nature of their work.

Jenny Bell, you're quite an enigma. But that's true of every artist. And I'd rather be with a woman who can't be fully known than one who is all surface and no soul.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

It is a land of Wonders! It is a land of Mystery. It is a land that Time Forgot (or chose specifically not to remember). Cut off from the civilized world for untold years, this land is called: Delaware.