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Quotes About Mystery

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
The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.
~ Lesley Sharp
I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.
~ Shoojit Sircar
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
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
~ Dave Barry
I feel the superstardom is God-given. I don't know how Pawanism came. I find it strange.
~ Pawan Kalyan
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
~ Claes Oldenburg
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
~ Victor Hugo
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
~ Anthony Hecht
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
~ Edward M. Purcell
We live in a strange bubble.
~ Brian Molko
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
~ Maynard James Keenan
I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.
~ Kristin Davis
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Strange thing, this television.
~ Peter Falk
We human beings are very dark, strange things.
~ Mel Giedroyc
Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.
~ Art Bell
In some strange way, this was meant to be.
~ Joel Gretsch
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
~ Laura Dern
People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
~ Matthew Bourne
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
~ Pico Iyer