Aluminium Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration—some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers.”

— Carl Sagan

“At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paws and began…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue…

— David B. Dacosta

“My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of…

— Craig Silvey

Sphinxes without secrets.

— Oscar Wilde

“All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like…

— Edward M. Erdelac

“A howl, one so guttural and deep echoed out of his throat. Then again the beast let out its plea to the dying night.…

— Sarah Noffke

“I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or…

— Mervyn Peake

“I went to a charnel ground for the practice of Chod a few dozen times in India and in Nepal. Several times I went…

— Lama Surya Das

“Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.”

— George R.R. Martin

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs

“I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its…

— Stephen R. Lawhead