Mystery Quotes - Page 27

• Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.

  Bob Seger

  Moving, Night, Past

  Song: Night Moves, Album: Night Moves, 1976

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• I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Facts, Nonsense

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• You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

  Jason Clarke

  Thinking, Soul, French Woman

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

  Nina Garcia

  Fashion, Years, People

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• The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Caves, Womb

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• I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

  Vanilla Ice

  Yesterday, Goal, Agendas

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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

  Robert Jordan

  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kids, Two, Detectives

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• People love a good mystery; I understand that.

  Eric Kripke

  People

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

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• I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

  Eric Kripke

  Loyalty, Rewards, Way

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

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• People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

  Eric Kripke

  Crazy, Character, People

  "Creator Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, How It’s Different from SUPERNATURAL, and Ideas for Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 16, 2012.

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• I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

  Gayle King

  Growing Up, Father, Turkeys

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• If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Book, Writing, Reader

  "Conversation: Nicole Krauss’ ‘Great House’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 22, 2010.

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• Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Who I Am, Order, Needs

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• Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Philosophy, Deceased, Captured

  Song: Make Love Stay

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• My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

  Jon Anderson

  Romantic, Dream, Wish

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• There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Secret, Individual, Zone

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• I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

  Rachel McAdams

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Rachel McAdams Is an Open Book". Marie Claire Book Club Interview, www.marieclaire.com. April 8, 2009.

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• You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Doe, Producers, Knows

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• Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

  Rumi

  Love, Causes, Nationality

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• It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

  Charles de Lint

  Children, People, Magic

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.435, Macmillan

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• Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

  Paul Meyer

  Clever, Blood, Games

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• I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mean, Talking, Land

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• I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

  Thomas Perry

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  Maggie Q

  Nice, Technology, Thinking

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

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