The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad… — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
And I wasnt playing a role I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don’t know what to say about it most of the… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
“In the forgotten corners, a dark shadow emerges from the hard and often frozen earth. Like a secret, long hidden in the… — DarkNightBeacon Copy Share Image
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear.… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
They say our lives are scripted in advance. We just play our part and fate intervenes in mysterious ways to ensure that… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
