At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations. — John Balance Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it… — Ronald P. Chavez Copy Share Image
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
