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Quotes About Enigma

There's always some kind of hidden logic.
~ Christian Lacroix
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
~ Ang Lee
What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
~ Sarah Vowell
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
~ George MacDonald
Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.
~ George Sand
Or sit they girt by laws unknown Whereto the senses serve as bars – With fire of unrecorded stars That light a heaven not our own? ("The Testimony of the Suns")
~ George Sterling
Un rond, pas tout à fait clos, finissant par un trait horizontal: on aurait dit un grand G vu dans un miroir.
~ Georges Perec
is a source of constant wonder to me how I came to have such a cork-brained parent. However, I have not the slightest reason to believe that my poor mother played him false. It must remain an enigma.
~ Georgette Heyer
But as for Thaddeus Drybeck, words fail me!' The Inspector, placing no dependence on this statement, waited for her to continue.
~ Georgette Heyer
but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.
~ Gertrude Bell
MYSTERY OF THE MIXED-UP ZOO THE CAMP-OUT MYSTERY THE MYSTERY
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man!
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
THE MYSTERY OF THE EMPTY SAFE
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Henry and Jessie did not say any more about the Indian boy, but they did not forget him. Once in awhile they both wondered where he came from and why he was there. They also wondered why he did not want to be seen.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.
~ Perdita Weeks
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
~ Lewis Carroll
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
~ Nicholas Mosley
The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.
~ Erno Rubik
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.
~ Richard Flanagan
I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
~ Charlie Kaufman
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
Some things demand that you search for them, even though you will not find them.
~ Sarah Monette
You never know, just by looking, what a person is hiding.
~ Sarah Morgan
He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer