The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange,… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
Russia has named Vladimir Putin its man of the year for the 15th year in a row. Putin got 143 million votes… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within… — Fyodor Tyutchev Copy Share Image
A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or… — Stephen Briggs Copy Share Image
In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting. — Poppy Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A big part of making a good record is really getting a vibe, and a vibe is a mysterious thing. The vibe… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
