Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
“All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“If you can read in the night time, you will open closed books! Mystery is an open book to you if you… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.” “Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.” “Patrick, please.… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and… — Mur Lafferty Copy Share Image
“I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come… — Michael Byer Copy Share Image
“You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions. — Michael J. Schmoker Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Smoky knickers. Always said you were hot stuff,” he said. I rolled my eyes and shook my head at the same time.… — Annabeth Nash Copy Share Image
“Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!’ - Phillip Celeste… — Rod Tyson Copy Share Image
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
