Mysterious Quotes - Page 39

• Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fear, Thinking, Doors

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.306, Crown

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Night, Glowing

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• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Interesting, Quality, Elements

  "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.

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• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

  John Ruskin

  Sea, Darkness, Infinity

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.46

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• When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

  Abraham Verghese

  Men, Mystery

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.26, Random House India

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• Women, they are mysterious creatures!

  Bo Dallas

  Wwe, Creatures

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• Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

  Pema Chodron

  Unique, Meditation, Together

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

  Nina Bawden

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

  Bill Hybels

  Cooperation, Moments, Evolve

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• An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

  Wallace Stevens

  Religious, Religion, Church

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Community

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Eye, Light, Pathways

  "QVC Artist: The Movie" by Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Teaching, Air, Heartbreaking

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• The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Men, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.202

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Essence

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

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• In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

  Gore Vidal

  Doors, House, Lust

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Class, Feminist, Connections

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• It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Mysterious Things

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.99

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• Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, World, Body

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

  James A. Baldwin

  Europe, Tragedy, Needs

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