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Quotes About Mystery

dreams are not a mystery. They simply represent our hopes and fears
~ James Lee Burke
Many years back I gave up all claim to a rational view of the world and even avoided people who believed that the laws of physics and causality have any application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
~ James Lee Burke
application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
~ James Lee Burke
But every longtime cop will tell you that the criminals who scared him most were the ones who looked and talked like the rest of us and committed deeds that no one, absolutely no one, ever wants to have knowledge of. Five
~ James Lee Burke
The time had come to give the rest of the galaxy a look at Darth Vader.
~ James Luceno
Plagueis kept his thoughts to himself. The aptly named Darth Bane
~ James Luceno
Rumor has it that Palpatine has some secret project in the works.
~ James Luceno
Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts . . . .
~ James M. Cain
I ripped her. I shoved my hand in her blouse and jerked. She was wide open from her throat to her belly. "You got that climbing out. You caught it in the door handle." My voice sounded queer, like it was coming out of a tin phonograph. "And this you don't know how you got." I hauled off and hit her in the eye as hard as I could.
~ James M. Cain
I caught his eye running over my clothes once more, and I thought perhaps over what was beneath my clothes as well, and
~ James M. Cain
for one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.
~ James McBride
I been around the sun one hundred four whole times and nobody's explained nothing to me.
~ James McBride
I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. A lot of those secrets ended up floating
~ James McBride
how long could I go on before she'd find out who I was? She'd know it before long. Besides, how can somebody love you if you don't know who you is?
~ James McBride
What unsolved mysteries, what unwritten tragedies, what romance, what treasure of gold that vast North must hold! For a thousand, perhaps a million centuries, it had lain thus undisturbed in the embrace of nature; few white men had broken its solitudes, and the wild things still lived there as they had lived in the winters of ages and ages ago.
~ James Oliver Curwood
Strange things are said to have happened in this world — some are said to be happening still — but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.
~ James P. Blaylock
He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold.
~ James P. Blaylock
And yet I'm sure, Cheeser, that in this world of ours, science doesn't hold the only key; it only unlocks one of the doors – and perhaps the side door at that.
~ James P. Blaylock
James Patterson
~ Fnick -Iggy
I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.
~ James Patterson
I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn't a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. "Well, that'll simplify things," Fang said.
~ James Patterson
You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride. --Max's Voice
~ James Patterson
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.
~ James Patterson
Yeah sure,why not?i said,making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back." -max
~ James Patterson