Mystery Quotes

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

Martha Grimes

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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

Steve Rushin

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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

OMI

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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

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When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.

Tracy K. Smith

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

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He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

Kel Mitchell

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I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

Robert Adams

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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

Kevin DeYoung

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I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

Robert Wilson

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

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When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

James Patterson

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People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

Mary Gaitskill

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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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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Hillary Clinton

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Some people act like there is so much mystery in getting fit, but the only secret there is to making it happen is time.

Mike Colter

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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

H. R. Giger

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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Gillian Flynn

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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

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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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Quite honestly, I think that if you are making a lot of television programs with a central character, then ultimately it can become boring if you know nothing about them. I personally want to know, or get to know, things about a character. It doesn't mean to say that they still can't have a certain mystery about them.

Geraldine McEwan

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One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

Julia Holter

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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Dag Hammarskjold

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