It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
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.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.
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.
Engywook: The Sphinxes eyes stay closed, until someone who does not feel his own worth tries to pass by.
I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (...)
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
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.
Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt. Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt’s collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I’d met ...
She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls.
Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. or to the...
[Barbara's first impressions of Sheba as she watches her in the playground] Barbara Covett: [voiceover] Hard to read the wispy novice. Is she a sphinx or simply stupid? Artfully dishevelled today. The tweedy tramp coat is an abhorrence. It seems to s...
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paws and began to gaze at them. The sun, which now stood low, illuminated his huge head and shaggy breasts, and in that ruddy luster ...
