From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. Do you knows what that means? No. Is it a riddle?” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
“What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?' Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? - Howl ” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration—some say it was Mameluke Turks, others,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“In our gradually shrinking world, everyone is in need of all the others. We must look for man wherever we can find… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The Sphinx, so old that it had watched the childhood of the world, plunged in unbroken contemplation, had seen civilizations rise to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms, And all the tawny,… — Frederic Manning Copy Share Image
My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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