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Quotes About Impenetrable

Whereas for him there's a barrier, an impenetrable wall, forbidding him to deviate from what has been predetermined. Whenever he mentions this question of the forbidden I will try in vain to show him that he's wrong.
~ Philippe Besson
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld--monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about boring, impenetrable people. ...If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
~ Jon Ronson
if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
~ Jon Ronson
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
~ Billy Collins
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.
~ Michio Kaku
His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.
~ Joseph Conrad
I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness.
~ Joseph Conrad
The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. The
~ Joseph Conrad
desconocidas. Existen mentes que parecen de piedra: inmóviles, monolíticas, duras, impenetrables y rígidas, donde la experiencia y el conocimiento se han solidificado de manera sustancial e irrevocable con el paso de los años. Estas mentes ya están determinadas de una vez por todas, ya no aprenden nada distinto a lo que saben, porque su procesamiento obra por acumulación y no por selección.
~ Walter Riso
People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.
~ Noel Clarke
A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved Andy Kaufman, and half his shows, people would walk out in a rage. I love punk rock, which is notoriously music that doesn't always sound very inviting or appealing but, I think, unquestionably has the most heart, the most integrity.
~ Chris Gethard
It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither.
~ Richard Ford
The more negative emotion there is in a story, the heavier and more impenetrable it becomes.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The Vixen character is not quite me. A part of that is putting up this huge front of being strong, impenetrable, really tough and a little bit condescending.
~ Jenny Ryan
Okay, now things got tough. In the movies, heroes always get into seemingly impenetrable buildings through a heating duct or ventilation shaft or service entrance. In real life, if someone goes through all the hassle of creating an elaborate security system, they don't have a 3 ? 3 ventilation shaft secured only by a metal grate and four screws. Unless they're really, really stupid.
~ Kelley Armstrong
she looked ageless, with an appearance of intense hardness and ever-present violence.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
He's like the door of a bank safe- all big and hard and shinny and tempting, but impossible to get through.
~ Ally Blake
But the underlying biblical conception of character is often unpredictable, in some ways impenetrable, constantly emerging from and slipping back into a penumbra of ambiguity, in fact has greater affinity with dominant modern notions than do the habits of conceiving character typical of the Greek epics.
~ Robert Alter
Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.
~ Robert Carroll
Before our eyes, at least before mine (not hers, perhaps), everything was veiled in impenetrable darkness. It's the inner chambers, I thought, and I wasn't wrong, either. That's how it was, and my dear instructress seemed to be resolved to show me a world that had been hidden until now. But I must pause for breath.
~ Robert Walser
When, in the works of Lacan, Deleuze and Althusser, the nonsense machine began to crank out its impenetrable sentences, of which nothing could be understood except that they all had "capitalism" as their target, it looked as though Nothing had at last found its voice.
~ Roger Scruton
only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness
~ Alessandro Baricco
La notte fuori era illeggibile.
~ Alessandro Baricco