Mystery Quotes

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

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

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

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.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

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.

People suspend judgment in the presence of 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.

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.

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know... to me, I feel like letting your fans know about you is awesome.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.

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.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.