Mystery Quotes
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A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
Edmondo De Amicis -
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.
Sam Donaldson
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
Otto Penzler -
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush -
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.
Laura Prepon -
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael -
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
Dan Chaon -
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Rudyard Kipling -
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
R. C. Sproul -
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 -
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 -
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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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis -
The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
Hannah Kent -
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 -
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger -
Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.
Cenk Uygur -
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
Kevin Spacey
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
Patrick Modiano -
That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
King James I -
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
Calista Flockhart -
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine