Quotes About Riddle

invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.

Maddened by Mystery.

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There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction

Oppenheimer did not doubt that he would be remembered to some degree, and reviled, as the man who led the work of bringing to mankind for the first time in its history the means of its own destruction.2154 He cherished the complementary compensation of knowing that the hard riddle the bomb would pose had two answers, two outcomes, one of them transcendent.

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The riddle that was making the rounds was: "What is the difference between Hitler and Chamberlain? Answer: Chamberlain takes his weekend in the country. Hitler takes his country in the weekend.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Was it not Winston Churchill who said that a cat is a riddle, inside an enigma, inside a delightful pelt of cuddliness?

Those who fail to understand mystery are doomed to crack it

The things we don't understand will come back again.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

THE Naraudh Lar-Chanë (or Riddle of the Treesong), one of the key legends of the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandh, is here translated in full for the first time. This great classic of Annaren literature

I'm the solution to a two-hundred-year-old

Par le bois du Djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi Parle ! Bois du gin ou cent tasses de lait froid

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

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The question mark," Jupiter said impressively, "is the universal symbol of something unknown. We are prepared to solve any puzzle, riddle, mystery, enigma or conundrum which may be brought to us. Hence the question mark will be our trade-mark. Three question marks will stand for The Three Investigators.

I'll remedy the deficiency. I'll be Satan, I'll be Death. Look into my bony skull sockets and see if you can read the secrets of the eyes that are not there. Read my riddle—why does a death's head always grin?