Mystery Quote by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Download Open image ““You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.”” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mystery
“You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.” — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as plain text; there are only codes you understand and codes you don’t.” — Tom Pollock Copy Share Image
“That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.” — Chris Lynch Copy Share Image
“If you have something to say, make it meaningful, all else is meaningless.” — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. "Fine.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.” — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
“Words are messy, but sometimes, words are all you've got to show what matters most.” — Ann Burg Copy Share Image
“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.” — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.” — Arnost Lustig Copy Share Image
“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else.” — Jason Carter Eaton Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image