Mystery Quotes - Page 23

• I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

  Heather O'Rourke

  Swim, Nancy, Motorbike

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• Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

  Angela Lansbury

  Appeals

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• It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  Self, Creative, Conscious

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

  Immodesty Blaize

  Letting Go, Self, Asking

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• Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

  Erwin McManus

  Thinking, Facts, Frightened

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• I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.

  Kim Longinotto

  Film, Filmmaker

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• Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Photography, Beauty Everywhere, Ordinary

  Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

  Gregory Mcdonald

  Writing, Thinking, Criticism

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• I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

  Kay Warren

  Light, Darkness, Walks

  Kay Warren (2012). “Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough”, p.247, Baker Books

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• Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

  Esther Perel

  Eye, New Eyes, New Places

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• All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Philosopher, Vain

  "A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English". Book by Anthony Burgess, October 1992.

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• We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

  Richard Bach

  Princess, Adventure, Thinking

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

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• I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.

  James Kavanaugh

  Lonely, Laughter, Ocean

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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• Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Couple, Mean, Challenges

  Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books

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• Christmas is a time of little time.
  How we get there is a mystery.
  Racing madly mall-to-mall, we climb
  Into fields of sunlit harmony.
  Shopping, cooking, clearing walks and yards,
  Trimming house and tree while working, too;
  Making phone calls, wrapping, writing cards,
  As all worn out we do what we must do
  So that this day of joy might joy renew.

  Nick Gordon

  Writing, Phones, Shopping

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

  Alice Meynell

  Change, Childhood, Turns

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• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  Eddie Marsan

  Hard Work, Simple, Asking Questions

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2010.

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• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Technique, Photographer

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• There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Science, Enough

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.3, Xist Publishing

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