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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.
The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.
Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.
The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.
Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.
Aspen Ladd is quite the enigma. She looks and acts like a Girl Scout out of the cage, but in there she is an absolute beast.
The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.
I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.
Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Westworld' was its own treat and its own enigma. It was a great experience, but I definitely was not privy to a lot of things on that show.
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.
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
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.
Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.
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.
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
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.
But now 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.
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?
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I'd look like a jerk. That's why I became an enigma to people.
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.