“There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure." -… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one… — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“Life leads us into its spaces slowly. We’re not sure what awaits us next. We set out to explore it, moving circumspectly,… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I… — Jay Neugeboren 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
