Quotes by Sphinx READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. Ambrose Bierce sphinx reading country For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality. Austin Osman Spare sphinx black-and-white path You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx. Charlotte Bronte sphinx The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. D. H. Lawrence sphinx decree marriage From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. F. Scott Fitzgerald sphinx lonely rose You can't escape the puking sphinx. Frank Zappa sphinx There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. Friedrich Nietzsche sphinx results eye It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. Gregory Bateson sphinx fifty years It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Gregory Bateson sphinx answers class A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. Gregory Bateson sphinx form answers Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. Gustave Le Bon sphinx psychology people 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 me to wander around in. Guy Maddin sphinx territory interesting Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. Heinrich Heine sphinx riddle periods She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. Laini Taylor azure sphinx moved Sphinxes without secrets. Oscar Wilde sphinx women secret She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. Oscar Wilde sphinx passion secret The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity. P.D. Ouspensky sphinx simple faces Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Ruben Dario sphinx inward one-day It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? Sarah Jessica Parker sphinx riddle men 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 sphinx brain trying 12»
