Mysterious Quotes - Page 29

• I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Thinking, Mysterious Universe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Effort, Stones

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

  Albert Pike

  Holy, Form, Constructs

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• The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

  Demetri Martin

  Way, Lord, Sneak

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• Next time your lady leaves the room, take a dump on the floor! 'Cuz there is nothing more mysterious than a dump on the floor! And it always starts a conversation, am I right? Honey, what happened? You better hold me 'cause I'm afraid.

  Dave Attell

  Cuz, Honey, Rooms

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• [The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

  Sol LeWitt

  Beautiful, Artist, Play

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• People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

  Jared Harris

  People, Evil, Rational

  "Exclusive: Jared Harris Talks THE WARD, MAD MEN, FRINGE, SHERLOCK HOLMES 2, STAR TREK, Movie Villains, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try ideas and something works or sounds really cool. Sometimes songs are on the nose and sometimes they're more mysterious.

  Liza Richardson

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mysterious Things, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

  Bill Hybels

  Simple, Nudge, Cooperation

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• Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, Way, Can Do

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• Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

  Nikola Tesla

  Character, Past, Forever

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.21, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.

  Andy Grove

  Thinking, Parent, Buttons

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• Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Butterfly, Thinking

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Doe, Firsts

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• In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Men, Cogs

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

  Brian Swimme

  Destiny, Planets, Species

  Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker (2011). “Journey of the Universe”, p.96, Yale University Press

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Translate

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• The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

  David Deida

  Wise, Energy, Needs

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• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Moving, Communication

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.179

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• One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!

  Don Richardson

  Powerful, Biblical, Sky

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• In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

  Howe Gelb

  Ideas, Healthy, Ratios

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• Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

  John Guare

  Motivation, Play, Musical

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Cells, Adults

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

  Cindy Margolis

  Mom, Couple, Clothes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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