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 ~
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
~By Richard Kern ~
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
~By Michael Ende ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
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 ~
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
~By Balthus ~
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
~By Joan Rivers ~
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
~By Zahi Hawass ~
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
~By Jim Woodring ~
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 ~
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
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 ~
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
~By H. R. Giger ~
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
~By Jean Vanier ~
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 ~
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
~By Neil Diamond ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
~By Henry Miller ~
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
~By Howard Carter ~
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
~By Irene Dunne ~
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
~By Winston Churchill ~
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
~By Jones Very ~
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
~By Thomas Ken ~
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
~By William Gurnall ~
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 ~
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
~By Babatunde Olatunji ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~By Arthur Machen ~
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 ~
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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 ~
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
~By Anne Tyler ~
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
~By Conrad Hall ~
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
~By Anais Nin ~
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
~By Kent Nerburn ~
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
~By Joey Santiago ~
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
~By Rene Magritte ~
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
~By Kristen Bell ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
~By Michael Servetus ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
~By A. C. Benson ~
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 ~
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
~By Ed Wood ~
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 ~
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
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 ~
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
~By Rene Daumal ~
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 ~
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
~By Francis Bacon ~
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
~By Otto Weininger ~
Don't you see what's at stake here? 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 ~
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
~By Robert Crippen ~
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 ~
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 ~
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
~By Gretchen Mol ~
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
~By Grace Kelly ~
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
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 ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
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 ~
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 ~
These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
~By Benjamin Britten ~
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 ~
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am a mystery to myself.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
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