Quotes About Mystery

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

My dad was this Jack-of-all-trades, entrepreneur type. I secretly think he may be a spy, when I really think about it and I kind of connect the pieces. That's what led us to moving to Japan when I was four.

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.

St Andrews is one of those places where you can be the only person around but you feel like people are watching you. It's just got that aura about it, it's got atmosphere, it's got history. It's one of those rare places in the world which is something special. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up, it's just got that magic appeal.

I always like to say our shows should be something that, you know, before 10 o'clock, if your kid wanders into the room, they should be able to glance at the TV, watch what's happening, but not quite know what's happening. That's always my standard.

So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.