It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Most people define "street smarts" as some innate ability to make savvy decisions, or one that has developed as a result of… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred. — Olivia De Havilland Copy Share Image
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
“You do not yet understand the God who works in mysterious ways. He decides when it is over.” — Mary Moore Copy Share Image
“The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.” — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. ” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Some days I am the complete third person- the secret agent. Nobody knows I'm there, yet I know everything.” — Anna Paszkiewicz Copy Share Image
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
