“Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me. — James Agee Copy Share Image
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've always thought that, especially in the arts, people put this currency on being deep and mysterious and aloof. To hell with… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As mysterious as the part of himself that was chosen and loved by her, the part of himself that was there only… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the… — Joe Bousquet Copy Share Image
When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us,… — William Segal Copy Share Image
Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“* The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ALBERT… — John Pinkney Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious,… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
