Quotes About Enigmatic

The note was undated, and without either signature or address.

I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.

the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.

To a terrible place which men's ears             may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.

RebukeObstinate regressionbringing untold pathsof deep dark forebodingdepression...

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

I remember she had a silver light, real powerful but not really shining beyond her own skin. Almost too bright to look at. But I couldn't not look. None of us could bear to look at anything else. Sometimes it was Miss Drummond in the middle of the light, sometimes it was something else.

Now wild-eyed with the last of his vapor, her husband leapt to his feet and bellowed a desperate, enigmatic question to the first glimmer of dawn light. "Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat?" And then, out like that light, he fell back in a stupor. •

Il mondo è come un palloncino pieno di cose che non si vedono.

tall, dark-haired guy

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

I always say I want to look haunted.

I like haunted things.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

There was something vaguely queer about his appearance.

When they are among us cats are angels

A similar tradition on the creative power of letters forms the basis of the following midrash on Job 28:11.... This brings us to the text that played so important a part in the development of the golem concept: the Book of Yetsirah or the Book of Creation.... We do not know the exact date of this enigmatic text,.... We can only be sure that it was written by a Jewish Neo-Pythagorean some time between the third and sixth century.

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.

Los motivos de las mujeres son tan inescrutables...