Top 33 Enigma Quotes

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

‘The Bradshaws’ is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma – some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

I love being an enigma. Every time I’m tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically – you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you’re pro-gun, or you’re anti-gun – I stop and say to myself, ‘This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can’t figure out.’

I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I’d look like a jerk. That’s why I became an enigma to people.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I’ve never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature – he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

Telling Alan Turing’s story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

I’m a walking, talking enigma. We’re a dying breed.

People are fascinating. They’re so unique and I think what’s more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that’s where the gold dust is.

I’m tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne’er-do-well. He wasn’t lazy. He just couldn’t hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Gravity Falls’ is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

Westworld’ was its own treat and its own enigma. It was a great experience, but I definitely was not privy to a lot of things on that show.

In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

I’m not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I’m just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I’m usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

I’m an enigma, an unknown. You can’t really figure out what I’m going to do next. I like it like that.

In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.

I think I’m needed – as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer – as an alternative.

I’m a walking, talking enigma.