Mystery Quotes
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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.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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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.
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Love is the mystery of divine revelations!
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.
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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.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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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.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
