Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

But, for me, I'm such a complex person with so many different facets and so much depth that asking me the same question twice seems almost unfair to the reader. I'm going to die a mystery already, so you want to find out as much about me as you can while I'm still here.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I met him.

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.

This is not class warfare. It’s math.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.