Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks'… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed.… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls'… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you… — China Mieville Copy Share Image