Top 39 Enigmas Y Quotes
#1. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
Roberto Bolano
#2. I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#3. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
#4. With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.
Brad Goreski
#6. CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters!
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
Albert Camus
#8. In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
George Akerlof
#9. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
#11. Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis.
- Faith
Maya Banks
#12. The knots in the wood can't be untied.
Marty Rubin
#13. When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.
Henry Winkler
#15. Ibrahim shook his head. "Women. You are enigmas."
"No, we're just always waiting for men to say the proper thing. Now and then you do. And upon such occasion, we rejoice.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#16. Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#17. Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
#18. Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#19. Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.
Gail Carriger
#20. A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.
Herbie Brennan
#21. There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
Stanley Kubrick
#22. There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
Plato
#23. What if you have all the pieces and puzzle still doesn't fit?
Marty Rubin
#24. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore De Balzac
#26. If you believe in your abilities, it will amaze you what you can accomplish.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#28. The possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.
Alex Webb
#29. Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
Marquis De Sade
#30. ...the perfect enigmas, the ones that, at first glance, were inexplicable. I liked to see how - in a disorganized but predictable world - an organized but totally unpredictable way of reasoning emerged.
Pablo De Santis
#31. Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
Agnes Denes
#32. I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
M.C. Escher
#33. Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
Harold Bloom
#34. Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
Pedro Martinez
#35. If that was a proposal, you really need to work on your delivery.
Michelle Celmer
#36. True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
Thomas Browne
#37. If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it. For this is a journey of unknowables
of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#38. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Edgar Allan Poe
#39. Madness is confusion of levels of fact ... Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
William S. Burroughs
