Mystery Quotes - Page 34

• Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Men, Long

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Torrent of light and river of air,
  Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen,
  Like gold and silver sands in some ravine
  Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Science, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Chess

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• The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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• The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Gateways, Subtlety

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• Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.

  Basil Hume

  Attitude, Consistency, Needs

  Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing

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• There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Knows

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• I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

  David Lynch

  Children, Distance, Creativity

  Interview with Kristine McKenna, www.thecityofabsurdity.com. March 08, 1992.

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• The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

  Gretchen Mol

  Interesting, Littles, Pages

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Ancient

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• To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Science, Unique, Creation

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• You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Two, Mind

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• We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

  Anatoly Berezovoy

  Summer, Fall, Winter

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

  Richard Kern

  Ran

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. August 17, 2004.

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• The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

  James Denton

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.

  John Daniel

  Distance, Lying, Lakes

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

  David McCallum

  Enough

  "Fictional character: Dr. Vance Hendricks". Babylon 5 (TV Series); Infection, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

  Michael Servetus

  Men, May, Facts

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• Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Nwo

  Adam Weishaupt (2013). “The Illuminati Manifesto”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

  Warren Buffett

  Doctors, Two, Advice

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1987.

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• We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.

  John Daniel

  Bridges, Rivers, Water

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.108, Counterpoint

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• To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.15, Yale University Press

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• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  Alison Jolly

  Winter, Science, Sun

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