“With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments. With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
“Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“Without realizing what she was doing and more on an impulse than anything else, she leaned forward and kissed him. It was… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me,… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It’s all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. That’s fine. But give some… — John Dickson Carr Copy Share Image
“Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange: a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“And you never even reported it. You should have reported it. I could have took fingerprints. I'd love to lock up them… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I really like the spooky twists and the intense mystery. I think the various plot devices work really well for TV, but… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image