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  • I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

    Self   Down And   Band  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I just got a car, and I gotta say, this car is very cryptic. The very first day I drove it, a light came on out of nowhere: 'Check engine.' Could they be any more vague? What if a light came on and said, 'Problem'?

    Light   Car   What If  
  • And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

    God   Time   Sex  
    Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House
  • Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

    Book   Simple   Wind  
    Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.101, Llewellyn Worldwide
  • The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

    Cat   Men   Strange  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.17, e-artnow
  • In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.

    Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.284, Harlequin
  • But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

    Jesus   Honesty   Pain  
  • Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)

    Boys   Self   Watches  
    Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion
  • Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

    Glasses   Years   Littles  
  • The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

    Earthquakes   Mind   Age  
  • Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

  • I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really next level genius cryptic weirdos. And then I realized when I got older they are just using a lot of British words, and I didn't know what they meant. But I thought, Oh, they are making up their own language.

    Song   Next Level   Band  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

    Crazy   Doors   People  
  • So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

    Memories   Pride   Names  
  • I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a weird thing, but my justification in my head as to why it's okay is because it's cryptic enough and there's enough meat around it to make it all okay and no one can really prove what any of the songs mean.

    Song   Mean   Thinking  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  • I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

    Fall   Kissing   Shoes  
    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.17, Penguin
  • My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

    Fun   Mean   Cycling  
  • Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

    Dog   Thinking   Reality  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.246, Random House
  • I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

    Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”
  • You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets.

    Sex   Dark   Bed  
    "Fictional character: April Ryan". "The Longest Journey" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 1999.
  • Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

    Song   Secret   Needs  
  • Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

    Women   Eye   Yellow  
  • My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

    Song   People   Might  
    Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.
  • Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  • Nothing makes me crazier than the "you gave us Trump" argument based on Hillary Clinton's emails. I didn't set up the private server. I didn't advise her to be decidedly cryptic about the whole thing. I didn't tell the FBI to investigate.

    Source: live.washingtonpost.com
  • Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

  • I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  • Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.

  • A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

    Book   Home   Self  
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