With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“The reality and what it meant was slowly dawning: the betrayal, deception, and omission. Clandestine meetings. Evasion under questioning. In hindsight, Dana… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos,… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“∞ The Unseen Universe A Poem by Alexander Martini We live within the universe. Not far, not foreign. But at its heart.… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,” he said. “But you really mustn’t. These… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I… — Aubrey Becker Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Quoting geneticists, Guy Murcia says we’re all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
