Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be! — Cheshire Cat Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The stoniest of greens Plague queens not yet queens Just one beneath can steal the sleep Of maidens counting sheep” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the… — Adriana Koulias Copy Share Image