Sphinx Quotations

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

They all come off as the Great Sphinx because they have marching orders about not talking to the media.

It was love at first site. I thought I should have a bald cat as well. So I got my first Sphinx from a breeder in New York, where I was living at that time. I knew that I could use this loveable, bald kitty to teach my daughter about differences in this world and help her see that bald could be beautiful.... just in a different form.

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Sphinxes without secrets.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.