“What I'm afraid of," says Delilah suddenly in a high, strained voice, "is that one day someone asks me how many children… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James Copy Share Image
Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Don’t you believe any man who makes you feel like you were just a one-time thing.” His arms tighten around me and… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extra curricular… — Holly Jackson Copy Share Image
“She remembers this phrase from his final months of law school, when he brought home the books on starting up a business.… — Jacob Appel Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I've never been adamant about joining Twitter; I have nothing against it; I'm not one of those people who hates Twitter. I… — Drew Van Acker Copy Share Image
How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure… — Ray Henault Copy Share Image
Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game,… — Paul Meyer Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The importance of something is seen when it's done. The worth of someone is realized when they're gone. For it'll always be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“Olivia forced a smile. “You really are not what I’d expected.” “I’m an enigma wrapped inside a riddle, all bundled in something… — Steve McHugh Copy Share Image
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
