David Means Quotes

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.

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

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

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

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

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.

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.

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

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.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

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've always had an air of mystery.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

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

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.