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I am a man of few words, but many riddles. -- Frank Gorshin
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles. -- Dan Jenkins
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. -- Roberto Unger
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets. -- Bonnie Bassler
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. -- Steve Martin
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. -- James Howe
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted. -- F. Sionil Jose
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve. -- Matt Berninger
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. -- Thomas Kuhn
The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. -- Andy Serkis
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. -- Victor Francis Hess
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. -- Tom Waits
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to. -- Karen Joy Fowler
I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs. -- Mason Cooley
All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. -- Steve Martin
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. -- Mason Cooley
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head -- Damon Knight
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. -- Daniel Handler
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? -- David Mutti Clark
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. -- Publilius Syrus
Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had. -- Maya Angelou
Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. -- Rodger Kamenetz
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles -- Mark Twain
I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. -- Rob Brezsny
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. -- Thomas Browne
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. -- George Arthur Buttrick
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. -- Aleister Crowley
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive. -- Sarah McLachlan
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. -- Patricia A. McKillip
Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. -- Brian Rathbone
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. -- Alexander Pope
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."Steve Martin -- Steve Martin
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? -- Victor Francis Hess
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. -- Khalil Gibran
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates. -- Harold Bloom
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence. -- William Cecil Dampier
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public. -- Malachy McCourt
I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something. -- Ice T
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. -- Anne Rice
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true. -- George MacDonald
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. -- Carl Sandburg
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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