Quotes About Enigmatic

His stories are so Eastern

The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous - so full of hope.

Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous--so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction.

The earth seemed unearthly.

Blessed art thou, O Griffin

They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.

he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge. There was no mistaking the awesome implications of the chaplain's revelation: it was either an insight of divine origin or a hallucination; he was either blessed or losing his mind.

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.

you sat breeding multiple & varied as a ghost

Signed his name with his left hand, held a paintbrush with his right, handled his knife and fork with either. And his Beretta? Thankfully, Isherwood did not know the answer to that.

As you may well know by now, the Givers are mysterious, and love to speak in riddles. It's more annoying than having sand in your underpants...

She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.

Delightfully, darkly, sweetly

Always looks as though she's seeing things other people don't see. But she's got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say.

She wasn't easy to read. She'd do a devilish thing one day, and a really fine one the next.

I can assure you, it is not so gay as it sounds.

A snake heart can slide up and down the length of its body when it needs to. You'll never be able to catch my pulse, my shine.

The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you're around them to understand.

That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me.

Surprises can be compelling.

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

Everything is always a little surreal.

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors