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Quotes About Cryptic

Smith used English as one might use a code book, with tedious and imperfect translation for each symbol.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
anonymous mystery
~ Deborah Gregory
Mystery is more important than knowledge.
~ J. J. Abrams
is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
~ Jennifer Archer
Secret and terrible things are hidden everywhere in this world.
~ A. Manette Ansay
The Rabba bar Bar-Cganah stories and the Savvei DeVei Atuna riddles (Bava Basra 733a-74b and Bechoros 8b) consist of fantastic stories and cryptic debates which constitute what are probably the most enigmatic parts of the entire Talmud.
~ Aharon Feldman
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
~ Demetri Martin
It has oblique leaves
~ Jenny Offill
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there
~ Andrew Roberts
In verità, come disse una volta re Dezmod contemplando il contenuto del suo vaso da notte: "Ciò è al di là della comprensione umana".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
~ Jamie Hince
Very convenient, the way people can only speak in crossword clues from the afterlife.
~ Robert Galbraith
It was a splendid and cryptic old family heirloom which belonged right where it was, in the cellar.
~ Roger Zelazny
They had already decided among themselves to keep it lean. It was felt someone else's cryptic half-remembered childhood legends would not survive a formal one-against-seven across-the-table grilling. It was felt a casual atmosphere would be more productive. A smaller gathering. Sinclair and Reacher and Neagley had already been chosen ahead of time. So
~ Lee Child
how maddeningly cryptic the AI can be.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
~ Robert Smithson
Mugworm Griblick
~ Louis Sachar
It doesn't really make sense. Guess it's not supposed to.
~ Joey W. Hill
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I mean, that number on the wall for a start! What sort of person bludgeons someone to death and then wastes time painting cryptic messages for the police to find?
~ Anthony Horowitz
I remembered a long time ago, Kit Williams hid a golden hare somewhere in Britain and wrote a book which was layered with clues about where the it was. This really fired my imagination, I read the book and it was way too cryptic for me to understand, but it seemed to fascinated people - it even got on the news.
~ Peter Molyneux
Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?
~ Robyn Jones Soul Bender
It's about...something that remains out of sight
~ Ronald Everett Capps
Viriconium, the Pastel City; a little cryptic, a little proud, a little mad. Its histories, as forgotten as his own, made of the air a sort of amber, an entrapment; the geometry of its avenues was a wry message from one survivor to another: and its present, like his own, was but an implication of its past - a dream, a prediction, a brief possibility to be endured.
~ M. John Harrison