Cryptic Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward — Kaye Dacus
Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there… — Tim Burton
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of… — Nigel Calder
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in… — Scott Cunningham
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. — Mark Jenkins
My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and… — Peter Sagan
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave… — Emmet Gowin
A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked. — Leah Price
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the… — Black Francis
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man,… — H P Lovecraft
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,… — Audre Lorde
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must… — Ilona Andrews
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. — Jim Butcher
He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. — Anne Tyler
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into… — Ally Carter
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not… — Greg Graffin
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the… — Chuck Palahniuk
The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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