The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know…

— Anonymous

“I knew your plan before you made it,” Eldora proclaimed, tossing her Wert from hand to hand… “You are somewhat of a mystery, one…

— Mary-Jean Harris

“I did it." Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day…

— Julie Halpern

Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in…

— Tim Burton

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

— Jamie Hince

“You cannot be certain of what you create.”

— Trista DiGiuseppi

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

— Jim Butcher

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

— Anne Tyler

I don't want to sound too cryptic, but if it wasn't for MMA, I'd probably be in prison.

— Sean Strickland

Being the other woman and he leaves her for you, then leaves you for another and you are surprised. Cryptic I know.

— Anonymous

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe…

— William S. Burroughs

Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what…

— Johnny Depp

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

— Leah Price