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
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths.… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest… — W.N.P. Barbellion 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
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle 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
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley 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
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We… — Zahi Hawass 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
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 have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid… — Zahi Hawass 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
“MARSYAS: Beware! Easily trips the big word "dare." Each man's an Œdipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no… — Charles Baudelaire 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
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
