Mysterious Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Handsome

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Confusion, Forever

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Land, Empathy

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• Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sports, Dog, Real

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• A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny. Then �the desperate hit man sends a ghoul after the girl to finish things up, my curiosity's piqued. That same ghoul ends up with his head cut off by a mysterious redhead . . . Ah. Now I'm interested.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Cousin, Jobs

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• The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

  Deborah Harkness

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.382, Penguin

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• It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hair

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• You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and mysterious. The taste of you drives me wild. I want to be with you, be inside you, shout to the world that you are mine at the same time I want to keep you hidden where you will exist only for me. You make me feel invincible, little bird.

  Katie MacAlister

  Night, Air, Water

  Katie Macalister (2008). “Playing With Fire: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.177, Penguin

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• Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Firefly, Trying, Fickle

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Keys To The Repository: Blue Bloods”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• [...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, Fleeing, Way

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• Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Letting Go, Brother

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• Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Passion, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press

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• The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Ephemeral

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Voice, Librarian

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 30, 2015

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• his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Curiosity, Mask, Resources

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• As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Language, Bizarre

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.43

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

  Werner Herzog

  Imagination, Cinema, Poetic

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Moving, Gone, Way

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• But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

  Deb Caletti

  Lying, Moon, Greatness

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Love Is

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• A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

  Walter Moers

  Book, Secret, Twenties

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.4, The Overlook Press

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• All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

  Raymond Carver

  Soul, Trying, Way

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.164, Vintage

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