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Quotes About Cryptic

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Kikkhf fkattkx hfkixu zttkcu," she said.
~ Max Barry
tehukohiakhazarishtial
~ Mercedes Lackey
a mystery to make men mad.
~ Bernard Cornwell
What's he like?" she asked. "Indescribable," Stone replied.
~ Stuart Woods
covered with a think
~ F. Paul Wilson
The world is full of incomprehensible words
~ Haruki Murakami
Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm a very sinister person.
~ Claire Denis
For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).
~ Bill Bryson
Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case
~ Tad Williams
I did it." Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day one of my Summer of Nothing, I might be in a hurry to figure this out. but first: breakfast.
~ Julie Halpern
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.
~ Veda Hille
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
~ David Levithan
Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?
~ Carl Sagan
Goo-goo, g'joob!
~ The Beatles
As a wedding gift to Ms. Marks, Dr. Daedalus created a topiary hedge maze in the garden by her house. When asked why she had decided to make such a gift, the doctor replied cryptically, "To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She understood neither the conventions of Noh nor the language. Marx would occasionally whisper poetic, cryptic commentary into her ear: "The fisherman's ghost was killed for fishing in the wrong river." Or "The drum is silent, and the gardener is killing himself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.
~ Ilona Andrews
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.
~ Lene Hau
He had always been a difficult creature to fathom.
~ Storm Constantine
Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?
~ Amanda Hocking, Switched
It is part of an old and clandestine drama for which the human body serves only as a set of very allusive, often cryptic programme-notes -- it's as if the body we can measure is a scrap of this programme found outside in the street, near a magnificent stone theatre we cannot enter.
~ Thomas Pynchon