Mysterious Quotes - Page 38

• I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

  January Jones

  Who I Am, People, Judgment

  Violet Grey interview, www.violetgrey.com.

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• I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dialect Coach, Voice, Accents

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

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• I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Want, Sometimes

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• Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Influence

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• Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Destiny, Space

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

  Elias Hicks

  Eugenics, Delight, Lost

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223

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• When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House

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• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Inspiring, Religious

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• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

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• Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Hiking, Vision

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• That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Independent, Political, Independence

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Decision, Favour

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• The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

  Bob Schaffer

  Agency, Ukraine, News

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Microsoft, Strange, Economy

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• Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Events, Strange, Woody

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• Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Moving

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.742, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Soul, Body, Possibility

  Rebecca Goldstein (2000). “Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Land, Wish, Mountain

  Song: 3rd Stone From The Sun

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• The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Swimming, Animal

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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.

  Robert Greene

  Unseen, Attention, Cost

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.9, Profile Books

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• I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Thinking, Mysterious Things

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, Ideas, People

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

  Mark Steyn

  Problem, Source, Sinister

  "GOP Presidential Field: Who Can Win and Who Doesn't Have a Chance?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Discovery, Lines, Lasts

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