Mystery Quotes
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.
Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.
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.
Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.
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.
The thing that sucks is that there’s so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.
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.
It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.
I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.