The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I find that I'm really attracted to mysterious creatives, and I love people that are able to put their emotions out there… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience…Maybe I'll just… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the… — Arthur Lismer Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one… — Hans Gmoser Copy Share Image
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted -… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors'… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. I did a lot of research on him too but during the promotions, I focused… — Seungri 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
When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The gift of creating new life needs to be, once again, welcomed and honoured as one of the most mysterious of human… — Patricia Monaghan Copy Share Image
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I am not an alcoholic. I'm a social catalyst. People pay me to illustrate for other partygoers the chemical process involved in… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Belly made me aware that you could write songs that were mysterious or vulnerable. Their guitar-led music was in some ways very… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
