There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]” — Maria Grazia Swan Copy Share Image
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and… — Immodesty Blaize Copy Share Image
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“I know what you're up to." "I doubt that." Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie's neck… — B.J. Daniels Copy Share Image
Those elements that make 'Catfish' so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always… — G.A. McKevett Copy Share Image
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God's attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a… — Toshiko Takaezu Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When Ngozi opened her eyes, she had a split second of disorientation. Where was this dazzling, airy room? Heaven? No, East Legon… — Kwei Quartey Copy Share Image
It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers.… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image