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.
Origen
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine
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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.
Natasha Trethewey
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You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.
Raquel Welch
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
Calista Flockhart
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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.
J. J. Abrams
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
Sherman Alexie
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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.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
Dan Chaon
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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'!'
Harlan Coben
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Love is the mystery of divine revelations!
Abdu'l-Bahá
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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.
Allan Sandage
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
Kaniehtiio Horn
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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.
Otto Penzler