Quotes About Mystery

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we're all experiencing it on this subconscious level.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!

I've always been attracted to the underworld.

There is a lot of the world that is undiscovered.

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'