A Mystery Wrapped In An Enigma Quotes

#1. Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Winston S. Churchill

#3. what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose. He

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. What would have happened to me if I would not have believed I would see the goodness of God?

Joel Osteen

#5. Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Lev Grossman

#6. We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

C.S. Lewis

#7. In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Cathy Rigby

#8. What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Douglas Preston

#9. Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

John Lyly

#10. It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Peter Alliss

#11. Every once in a while the universe give us what we ask for, so just make sure you're asking for the right things.

Kami Garcia

#12. That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I'm kind of glad he hit you.

Lev Grossman

#13. She can be a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a conundrum, rolled in a frito burrito. In other words, a total freaking mystery to anyone who isn't gifted with mind-reading abilities.

Michael Makai

#14. Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Doris Day

#15. There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

Jeff Lynne

#16. Differences about poor and rich people: Poor people ask me where's my money from; Rich people invite me for a coffee and never ask it.

Robin Sacredfire

#17. I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.

John J. McCloy

#18. If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

Carla H. Krueger

#19. I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Demetri Martin

#20. You're one tough egg to crack. You know that? You're like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

Cassia Leo

#21. Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.

Russ Gregory

#22. Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing.

Demetri Martin

#23. Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...

Robert C. Harvey

#24. He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

Nora Roberts