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 ~
I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
~By Christina Milian ~
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
~By Sidney Buchman ~
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 first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
~By Eric Cantona ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
~By Babatunde Olatunji ~
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~By Luis Barragan ~
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
~By Grace Kelly ~
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
~By Jean Vanier ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
~By Richard Kern ~
Veiling truth in mystery.
~By Virgil ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
~By Rene Magritte ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
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 ~
Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
~By Kel Mitchell ~
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 ~
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 ~
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
~By Carter Burwell ~
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 ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
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 ~
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
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 has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
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 ~
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
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 ~
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 ~
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
~By Irene Dunne ~
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 ~
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
~By Edward Young ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~By Jules Renard ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
~By Ken Follett ~
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
~By William Gurnall ~
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 ~
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 ~
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
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 ~
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~By Elia Kazan ~
There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
~By Alexander Volkov ~
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
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 Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
What I do is create an aura of mystery.
~By George Noory ~
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
~By Tryon Edwards ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
~By Steve 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 ~
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 ~
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