Mystery Quotes · Page 86

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not…

— Anonymous

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It…

— Katherine Mansfield

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this…

— Jane Goodall

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us…

— Henri Nouwen

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

— Howard Spring

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my…

— Clarence John Laughlin

“Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute,…

— Libba Bray

“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

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

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

“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more…

— John Adams

Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted…

— Daniel Quinn

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be…

— Theodor Adorno

Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what…

— Margery Wilson

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also…

— David Moranis

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and…

— Roger Ascham

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the…

— Flannery O'Connor

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do…

— Harland Williams

What we do is pretty stylised. It hasn't got mass appeal. This, combined with the fact that we've never been over-exposed, seems…

— Ron Mael

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should…

— William Morris Hunt

One of the things that I love about L'Oréal is that it's accessible and aspirational. Beauty doesn't have to be a mystery,…

— Julianne Moore

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all…

— Roger Deakins

“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of…

— Tom Cheetham

“Walking on a path of uncertainties, Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties, Waging on the possibilities of uncertainties, Waiting for the occurrences…

— Pushpa Rana

Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never…

— David E. Sanger

“Once created, thoughts don’t just vanish into thin air. They can’t. They need a place to go. And so, those thoughts come…

— Samantha Sotto Yambao

“It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using…

— Stefania Mattana

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands…

— John Galsworthy

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us…

— Henry Reed

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger…

— Ben Marcus

“And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles…

— Rebecca Stead

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

— Dan Simmons

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is…

— Gabriel Byrne

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,…

— Anonymous

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these…

— Ed Wood

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't…

— Terry Pratchett

Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It…

— David Richo