Mysterious famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
-- Allen Tate -
Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the being of the entire universe. It is the eternal song of the Divine.
-- Amit Ray -
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
-- Amos Oz -
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
-- Amy Tan -
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
-- Andrea Barrett -
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
-- Ang Lee -
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
-- Ann Beattie -
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
-- Anne Truitt -
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.
-- Archibald Alexander -
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
-- Archie Panjabi -
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
-- Bede Jarrett -
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
-- Bill Hybels -
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
-- Bill Nighy -
One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
-- Blaise Cendrars -
Don't bore the public with mysterious designs,
-- Bob Noorda -
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure ***** - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
-- Brian Molko -
You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,
-- C. S. Lewis -
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.
-- Carl Jung -
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here...
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
-- Carolyn Keene -
Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.
-- Carter Heyward -
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
-- Christopher Pike -
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
-- Christopher Walken -
Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.
-- Cornelia Funke -
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
-- David Duchovny -
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
-- David Harsanyi -
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
-- David Lynch -
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
-- Dean Koontz -
Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.
-- Dean Koontz -
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
-- Duke of Wellington -
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
-- Elias Hicks -
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.
-- Elsa Barker -
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
-- Emily Blunt -
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
-- Eugene Wigner -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.
-- Francis Brett Young -
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
-- Francois Mauriac -
There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
People are mysterious, even to themselves.
-- Frank Lentricchia -
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
-- Gail Godwin -
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
-- Garry Winogrand -
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
-- Georg Simmel -
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
-- George Brecht -
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
-- George Orwell -
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.
-- Gillian Welch -
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
-- H. M. Tomlinson -
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
-- Harry Callahan -
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
-- Hermann Hesse -
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
-- Huangbo Xiyun -
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.
-- Ian Tattersall -
Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us.
-- Ichabod Spencer -
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
-- Jacques Lacan -
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)
-- James Schuyler -
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
-- James Taylor -
I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.
-- January Jones -
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
-- Jean Cocteau -
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.
-- Jean M. Auel -
When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
-- Jeet Aulakh -
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
-- Jeet Aulakh -
It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.
-- Jessica Day George -
Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
-- Jim Cramer -
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
-- John B. S. Haldane -
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.
-- John Burnside -
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.
-- John Desmond Bernal -
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
-- John Dryden -
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
-- John Dryden -
Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
-- John Milton -
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
-- John Ortberg -
It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.
-- John Taylor
