Mystery Quotes

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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.

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.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

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.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

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.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

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.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

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.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

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.

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

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.