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Quotes About Mystery

Look how the pale queen of the silent night Doth cause the ocean to attend upon her....
~ Charles Best
There is no time like the very early morning for subtle and mysterious deeds.
~ Charles Boardman Hawes
Her smile is slight, like that of a little girl, and the eyes often small as if she is peering through a gun slit at a disappointing world. The hands are callused from work and rough when they touch and she is very strong. Once she grabs me from behind, puts on a choke hold and I begin to go black into unconsciousness. Then she giggles and releases her hold and light floods back into my brain and I marvel at her strength and caprice.
~ Charles Bowden
Russell turned his head and said to me, "Say hello to Jimmy Hoffa." Then Russ handed me the phone. I reached for the phone and I thought, can you imagine this? Jimmy Hoffa calling to talk to me? "Hello," I said. "Glad to meet you." Jimmy Hoffa didn't even say hello. He got right to the point. The next thing I heard were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to me. "I heard you paint houses," Jimmy said.
~ Charles Brandt
fan. You know, Jimmy's got records stashed away in case something unnatural happens to him." "Your friend made one threat too many in his life," Russell shrugged. "I'm only saying the nuclear fallout's going to hit the fan when they find his body." "There won't be a body.
~ Charles Brandt
I got a little carried away one day and sold my entire load of meat on my way to a delivery in Atlantic City. I put the seal on my lock after the whole load of meat was transferred to the guy. When I got to Atlantic City the seal was broken by the manager and there was no meat inside and I was mystified.
~ Charles Brandt
A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.
~ Charles Bukowski
That night was different... there was something pulling me towards him. Something dark and sexy.
~ Charles Burns
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
~ Charles Chaplin
The first thing you should know about people is that you don't know the first thing about them.
~ Charles Cumming
grave. 'I don't know,' Akim replied,
~ Charles Cumming
submarines in another. Soon a third
~ Charles D. Taylor
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
~ Charles Darwin
Be able to prove God? It would no longer be God. (Pouvoir prouver Dieu ? Ca ne serait plus Dieu)
~ Charles de Leusse
Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)
~ Charles de Leusse
No one has seen God, but I have seen your eyes. (Personne n'a vu Dieu, - Mais j'ai vu tes yeux.)
~ Charles de Leusse
The eyes have undressed things that hands have dressed.
~ Charles de Leusse
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
~ Charles de Lint
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible — elves probably more so.
~ Charles de Lint
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
~ Charles Dickens
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...
~ Charles Dickens
This is a London particular…. A fog, miss.
~ Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
~ Charles Dickens
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
~ Charles Dickens