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Quotes About Enigmatic

Luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don't really like to tell everyone my business. I'd much rather people wonder or not know.
~ Alexis Bledel
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
~ Gary Lineker
Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
~ Dodie Smith
Any cat can make a house seem haunted.
~ Dodie Smith
Henry's a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman — very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He's a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and he's made himself what he is by sheer strength of will. His aspiration is to be this Platonic creature of pure rationality and that's why he's attracted to the Classics, and particularly to the Greeks — all those high, cold ideas of beauty and perfection.
~ Donna Tartt
They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.
~ Donna Tartt
La bellezza è raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza è sempre un po' inquietante.
~ Donna Tartt
I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them. It never occurred to me that my behavior could seem to them anything but awkward and provincial, certainly not that it would appear as enigmatic as it in fact did.
~ Donna Tartt
Witches are not so delicate.
~ Madeline Miller
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
~ Madeline Miller
Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.
~ Unknown
He shook his head. "I don't know. Someplace crookeder than here." "You know a place crookeder than Dallas?" "Sure.
~ John Sandford
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?
~ Neil Jordan
She comes out with things, you know, that keep you pondering for hours. There's really something quite Pythian about her!
~ Marcel Proust
Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
That book is filthy. Wicked. Dangerous. Yet it feels so comforting to own it.
~ Unknown
I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.
~ Unknown
So is this good or bad or what?" "It's 'or what
~ Martha Wells
Can you be a trifle more obscure? I think I almost understood what you said that last time.
~ Martha Wells
Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
~ Morton Hunt
There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She did look sad. Not sad, exactly
~ Mary Higgins Clark
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
~ Matthew Arnold
Nature is the primordial--that is, the nonconstructed, the noninstituted; hence the idea of an eternity of nature (the eternal return), of a solidity. Nature is an enigmatic object, an object that is not an object at all; it is not really set out in front of us. It is our soil --not what is in front of us, facing us, but rather, that which carries us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty