Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
I live with deer and coyotes. Lyme ticks are a daily concern and mystery, but, yes, what do they mean? I don't… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to… — LynDee Walker Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Love can be mysterious. You have to find it in your heart, but be careful, it can fall apart. The tears fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
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