Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
~By Robert Caro ~
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 ~
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.
~By Henry Reed ~
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 ~
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Veiling truth in mystery.
~By Virgil ~
Now comes the mystery.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
~By Michael Servetus ~
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
~By A. C. Benson ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
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 ~
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
~By Gao Xingjian ~
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~By Jules Renard ~
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
~By William Gurnall ~
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
~By Charles W. Chesnutt ~
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 ~
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
~By Babatunde Olatunji ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
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 ~
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
~By Sue Grafton ~
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
~By Robert Crippen ~
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
~By George A. Smith ~
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
~By Eric Cantona ~
What I do is create an aura of mystery.
~By George Noory ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
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 ~
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
~By Frederick Buechner ~
We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
~By Sally Schneider ~
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
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 ~
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
~By Anais Nin ~
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
~By Steve Allen ~
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
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 ~
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
~By Diane Duane ~
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
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 ~
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
~By Anne Lamott ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~By Luis Barragan ~
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 ~
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
Mystery is not profoundness.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
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 ~
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
~By Richard Kern ~
I am a mystery to myself.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
~By Henry Miller ~
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
~By Jones Very ~
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 ~
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 ~
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
~By Jim Woodring ~
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
~By Christina Milian ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
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 ~
It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.
~By Lea DeLaria ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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