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 ~
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
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 ~
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 ~
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
~By Sue Grafton ~
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 ~
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
~By Steve Allen ~
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 ~
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
~By Fred Melamed ~
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 ~
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 ~
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
~By Sidney Buchman ~
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 ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
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 ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
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 ~
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 can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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 ~
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
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 ~
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 ~
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
~By Otto Weininger ~
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
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 ~
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 ~
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
~By George A. Smith ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
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 ~
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 ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
~By John Dyer ~
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
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 is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
~By Edward Young ~
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 ~
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
~By Thomas Perry ~
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
~By Christina Milian ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
~By Irene Dunne ~
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 ~
Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.
~By David McCallum ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
~By Rene Daumal ~
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~By Arthur Machen ~
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 ~
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 ~
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
~By John Dewey ~
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
I am a mystery to myself.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
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 ~
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
~By Jean Vanier ~
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 ~
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
~By Grace Kelly ~
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
~By William Gurnall ~
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
~By Tryon Edwards ~
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 ~
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 ~
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