A Quote by Claire Denis

I don't want to be mysterious.

Claire Denis

Quote Topics

Mysterious Want

Quote Author

Claire Denis
French - Director

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chris Abani

Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

Freeman Dyson

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Rosemary Mahoney

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Allen Tate

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.

Walter Darby Bannard

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

Tina Brown

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Martin Gore

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.