Mysterious Quotes · Page 21

“...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...”

— John Geddes

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and…

— Thomas Wolfe

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me…

— Renee Fleming

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

— Agnetha Faltskog

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of…

— Giorgio de Chirico

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical…

— Alexis Denisof

There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

— Brian Swimme

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was…

— Haruki Murakami

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,…

— Anne Truitt

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's…

— Agnes Martin

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.…

— Salman Rushdie

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the…

— Michael Atiyah

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is…

— Pattiann Rogers

Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored…

— Humphry Davy

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have…

— Irvin Kershner

My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an…

— Richard Rodriguez

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true…

— John Powell

The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises…

— Sam Keen

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume

To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician…

— Robert Fripp

My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert at evading questions--for all that…

— Laini Taylor

I am from Banaras and I have seen several aghoris. They are mysterious and their way of life is quite intriguing.

— Ravi Kishan

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

— Benjamin Whichcote

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations…

— Glenn Branca

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

— Albert Einstein

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay…

— Harold Brodkey

“You have to surrender everything because you don’t know how it’s going to turn out. That’s what makes it all so mysterious.”

— Art Hochberg

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one…

— Paul Gauguin

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to…

— Michael Kenna

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

— Demetri Martin

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon…

— Jules Verne

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm…

— Galcher Lustwerk

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of…

— Hedi Slimane

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it,…

— Carlos Fuentes

Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to…

— Frederick Lenz

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

— Elizabeth Goudge