It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
~By Larry Wilcox ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
~By Susan Sontag ~
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
~By Robert Crippen ~
What I do is create an aura of mystery.
~By George Noory ~
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
~By Neil Diamond ~
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
~By Francis Bacon ~
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
~By Edward Young ~
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
~By Joel Coen ~
I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~By Jules Renard ~
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
~By Peter Straub ~
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
~By Rene Magritte ~
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
~By Leonhard Euler ~
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
~By Babatunde Olatunji ~
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 is: photograph the people's eyes.
~By John Ford ~
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
~By Tryon Edwards ~
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
~By Robert Boyle ~
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
~By Andrea Thompson ~
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
~By Charles Darwin ~
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
~By Jones Very ~
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
~By John Podhoretz ~
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
Now comes the mystery.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I am a mystery to myself.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
~By Jimmy Kimmel ~
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
~By Robert Benton ~
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
~By Constantin Brancusi ~
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
~By Robert Barany ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.
~By James Denton ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.
~By Dennis Wilson ~
He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
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 fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~By George A. Smith ~
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~By Anthony de Mello ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
~By Jim Garrison ~
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
~By Robert Caro ~
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~By Arthur Machen ~
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
~By George A. Smith ~
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
~By Grace Kelly ~
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
~By George Foreman ~
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
~By Alice Meynell ~
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
~By Eric Cantona ~
It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
~By Eric Clapton ~
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
~By Herman Melville ~
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
~By Ted Allen ~
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
~By Joan Rivers ~
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
~By Rene Magritte ~
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
~By Carter Burwell ~
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
~By Anne Perry ~
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
~By Henry Miller ~
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
~By Kary Mullis ~
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
~By William Gurnall ~
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
~By Don DeLillo ~
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
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