Quotes About Enigma

#1. One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.

Clarence John Laughlin

#2. The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

John Maeda

#3. The man was an enigma. One minute he was looking at her as though he would
kiss her senseless, the next he refused to even talk to her, much less look at her.

Charlotte Featherstone

#4. Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.

Liane Moriarty

#5. I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Larry David

#6. One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Giorgio De Chirico

#7. In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.

Gunter Blobel

#8. Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Rebecca Latimer Felton

#10. 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

#11. Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...

Juan Filloy

#12. She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

Jack London

#14. She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#15. Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

Giorgio De Chirico

#16. Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

Gordon Brown

#17. The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

T. S. Eliot

#18. To those who do not see, we are the enigma of society

Dara Reidyr

#19. All novels ... are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

Milan Kundera

#20. Tease?" he groaned. "Ah, baby, I'm not teasing you. I'm giving to you. Giving you every ounce of pleasure I know how to give you."
-Jordan(Live Wire) to Tehya (Enigma)

Lora Leigh

#21. I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

Chelsea Clinton

#22. 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

#23. He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

Darynda Jones

#24. Finn was an enigma wrapped in a riddle coated in misdirection. He was a burrito of dishonesty.

Molly Harper

#25. The child is an enigma ... He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

Maria Montessori

#26. One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. Her mysteries had to be unravelled - so he would contain her until he'd dissected the truth of her and isolated her enigma.

Ronel Van Tonder

#28. I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

Kanye West

#29. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

#30. Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer.

Patrick Modiano

#32. A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?

Sidney Jourard

#33. You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.

Liane Moriarty

#34. As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

William Winwood Reade

#35. If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma

Brian McGreevy

#36. For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.

Andrew Hodges

#37. It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

Jon Krakauer

#38. This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

Willa Cather

#39. Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt.

Sara Sheridan

#40. A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

Damian Pettigrew

#41. The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

Patrick Star

#42. Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

James Dyson

#43. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

#44. When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

Mick Jagger

#45. The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.

Victor Hugo

#46. The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight.

Antonia Perdu

#47. Don't tell me," I snickered. "You're in a club that gathers together like raving Trekkies to share secrets of the afterlife. I bet you even have an Enigma CD you crank up to get in the mood." "Don't be silly." His face lit up with an enormous grin. "We listen to Enya, not Enigma.

J.A. Saare

#48. I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Larry David

#49. There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Albert Memmi

#50. Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#51. Life is stranger than any of us expected,
There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Richard Eberhart

#52. In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.

Slavoj Zizek

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

Douglas Preston

#54. I'm an enigma, an unknown.

Emmitt Smith

#55. I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#56. Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#57. Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.

Lisa Shearin

#58. Excuse my charisma, vodka with a spritzer. Swagger down pat, call my shit Patricia. Young Money militia and I am the commissioner. You don't want start Weezy 'cause the F is for finisher
So misunderstood but what's a world without enigma?

Lil' Wayne

#59. 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

#60. Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

Jean M. Auel

#61. As I'd discovered this week, Jude was every kind of mystery that appealed to a woman and every kind she could never unveil. He was every enigma to which I wanted the answer to.

Nicole Williams

#62. Wei is like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world

Michele Amitrani

#63. The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Shahrukh Khan

#64. Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.

John Steinbeck

#65. The kiss: It felt like light rising through them. It was a memory and it was a promise, an enigma and a wonder. It was music. A conversation. A flight. A true story. And it was theirs.

Martha Brockenbrough

#66. War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night

Philip Roth

#67. Man is an enigma. This enigma must be solved, and if you spend all your life at it, don't say you have wasted your time; I occupy myself with this enigma because I wish to be a man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#68. He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

Saffron Burrows

#69. I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

Brent Spiner

#70. Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

#71. The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

#72. The problem of human intentionality that the handaxe "enigma" primarily embodies is grounded on the false assumption that intentional states are "in the head" whereas in fact they can, in many cases, be seen to spread out into the world.

Lambros Malafouris

#73. Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Phyllis Bottome

#74. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.

Edna O'Brien

#75. Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.

Graham Moore

#76. We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Jean Baudrillard

#77. 'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

Richard Flanagan

#78. He means to marry you?" "He tells me so." She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.

Charlotte Bronte

#79. 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

#80. Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

Ace Antonio Hall

#81. Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Oriana Fallaci

#82. Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#83. I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

CeeLo Green

#84. Until we discover this Spiritual Centre in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others.

Swami Chinmayananda

#85. What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

Boris Pasternak

#86. The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

L. Frank Baum

#87. Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.

Ronald Frame

#88. 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

#89. (The enigma of trade is that it can make a whole country richer and yet most of its people poorer.)

Dean Baker

#90. I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.

Annie Barrows

#91. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

John Berger

#92. One of the features of the Enigma machine was its inability to encipher a letter as itself, which was a consequence of the reflector. The letter a could never be enciphered as A, the letter b could never be enciphered as B, and so on.

Simon Singh

#93. I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

Mika.

#94. Zach," Seth greeted him cautiously. "I'm surprised you joined us."
"Apparently, he's an enigma," Marcus drawled, the words dripping with sarcasm.
Seth actually felt the urge to smile.
"And you're the luckiest bastard on the planet," Zach declared. "They love you, faults and all.

Dianne Duvall

#95. It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Michael Apted

#96. Life is one big enigma. If you got to the bottom of it before the end of your lifetime, the rest of your life wouldn't be worth living, now would it? Where's the excitement in an existence with all the unknowns known?

Elle Casey

#97. The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Paul Davies

#98. Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

Alyssa Milano

#99. We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Terence McKenna

#100. You can work on an airplane but you can't fix anything here at the house?"
"Yeah, well, I'm an enigma," she said. "An annoying one. Just ask anyone in my family.

Jill Shalvis