Daley Thompson Quotes

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

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

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

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

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

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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.

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

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.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

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.

I always loved bands with mystique.

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

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.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.