Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who… — January Jones Copy Share Image
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play… — John Guare Copy Share Image
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
The gift of creating new life needs to be, once again, welcomed and honoured as one of the most mysterious of human… — Patricia Monaghan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque. — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place. — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
![“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This…” quote by Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfc/leslie-fiedler-13246_age_there-is-a-place-in-men-s-lives-where-pi_2758654.jpg)
