Mystery Quotes

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Frank Pierson

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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Tim Cahill

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In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.

Carolyn Porco

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I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.

Nir Eyal

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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Jeanette Winterson

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I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

Darren Aronofsky

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Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

Richard Kern

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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Jean Vanier

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I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Bernadine Dohrn

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I think you can safely say that the mystery in 'Twin Peaks' as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.

Mark Frost

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The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Steve Jobs

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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

Walter Becker

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Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

Marianne Williamson

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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Sam Claflin

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I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

Marlon Wayans

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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Sissela Bok

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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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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Tryon Edwards

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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

Otto Penzler

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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Kenneth Grahame

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One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

Robert Duncan McNeill

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