Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
~By David Duchovny ~
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
~By W. A. Spooner ~
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
~By Sophia Bush ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
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 ~
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
~By Sidney Buchman ~
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Mystery is not profoundness.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
~By Robert Crippen ~
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
~By George William Russell ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
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 ~
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
~By Jim Woodring ~
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
~By Jones Very ~
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 ~
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
~By Peter Garrett ~
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 ~
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
~By Irene Dunne ~
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
~By Rene Magritte ~
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
~By Eric Cantona ~
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
~By Joan Rivers ~
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 ~
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
~By John Dewey ~
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
~By J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
~By Henry Miller ~
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
~By Walter Reisch ~
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
~By Carter Burwell ~
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~By Leonard Bernstein ~
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 ~
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
~By Robert Barnes ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
What I do is create an aura of mystery.
~By George Noory ~
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 ~
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
~By Don DeLillo ~
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
~By Martin Luther ~
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
~By Sue Grafton ~
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
~By Larry Harvey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
~By Nat Turner ~
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
~By Robert Caro ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
~By James Patterson ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
~By Tim Cahill ~
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
~By Origen ~
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 ~
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
~By Agnes Martin ~
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
~By Max Planck ~
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
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 ~
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
~By Tom Allen ~
I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.
~By Paul Lynde ~
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
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 ~
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
~By Al McGuire ~
|