Mysterious Quotes - Page 5

• Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dimensions

  "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March 2000.

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• As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

  Paul Johnson

  Beautiful, Children, Railroads

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• It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

  Stephen King

  Powerful, Ideas, Firsts

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• Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Thinking, Two, Brain

  Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org. January 29, 2009.

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• I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

  Diane Kruger

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Interview With Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Symbolic Meaning, Feminine

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

  Jon Meacham

  Heart, Simple, Reality

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• The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Journey

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• God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Home

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

  Dylan Moran

  War, East, Cold

  "Interview: Irish Comic Dylan Moran Takes America by Typhoon". Interview With Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Fighting, Inner Demons, Rehearsal

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• There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

  Rachel Nichols

  Hate, Lips, Pockets

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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• Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Men, Use

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

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• America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

  David Riesman

  Humorous, America, Chinese

  David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

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• The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Heart, Creating

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• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Events, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Doors, Imagination

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• The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.1, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

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• I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

  Sarah Shahi

  Dark, Sides, Cheerleader

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• If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Men, Sea, Growing

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Riding, Equestrian

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, edition.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Interesting, Relevant

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Unhappy, Would Be

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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