Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario 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
“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
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
Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest,… — William Butler Yeats 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
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
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the… — Michael Scott 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
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
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the… — P.D. Ouspensky 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
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by… — Gustave Le Bon 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
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
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
