Adeel Akhtar Quotes

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Something that simply mystifies me.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.