Time Quote by Carl Sagan

“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

“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

“Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.”

— George R.R. Martin

Sphinxes without secrets.

— Oscar Wilde

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

— Frank Zappa

“A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my veils. Not…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In more than one ambuscade, man, that sublime ape, has already pierced my breast with his porphyry lance: a soldier does not exhibit his…

— Lautreamont

“Does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the slaughter of eighteen elephants in the Circus, pitting…

— Seneca

“A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by…

— Kingsley Amis

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have…

— Gregory Bateson

“Then a skeleton came out from among the trees. It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so…

— Irene Hunt

“Covered in shaggy red fur, it looked a little like an orangutan except for its enormous hands and ghastly face.  The moment he met…

— Brian Harmon