The Cold War was over, presidential sex scandals superseded foreign concerns, and the American public was more interested in reading about fiendish… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“...We were pulling into the next station, when the woman suddenly got to her feet and made a move to squeeze past… — A.J. Waines Copy Share Image
“Under the mystichood ofNameless Bride, we grope in Her Sacred Darkness for plasmatic encounter, the fifth ionized state of matter. Our mundane… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
“His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding… — Peter Chapman Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Favorite Quotations. I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue. The worth of a book is measured by what… — Pat Frayne Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered… — Meinrad Craighead Copy Share Image
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“Excerpt from page 3 of "Wicked Washington" Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life: And close and dangerous calls were… — Sonja D. Jones Copy Share Image
The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Walter Mosley was not the first black crime writer, nor was he the first to fuse genre conventions with larger social concerns.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Standing under the shelter of a cedar tree, I stared at the fire crackling as it burned through the fallen logs and… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
“The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self.… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
¦-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image