Quotes About Mystery

There is much unexplained in the world. It behoves one to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralised debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Good evening," said the barman. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" "Because Poe wrote on both?

I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or seeding idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery.

Mr Cripp's last words were 'Good heavens! It's full of holes!' said Mary. 'Do you have any idea to what he was referring?' 'Most puzzling,' confessed the Vicar. 'He might have been referring to anything - the greenhouse, his cucumber, the plot - anything.' 'The plot?' echoed Mary. 'I mean the vegetable plot,' he said hurriedly.

Ninjas are far more important to science than anyone realises. If we could capture one to study, I think most of science's biggest puzzles might be resolved.

Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description.

Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands.

She and I had not exchanged an intelligent word since we first met five hours before, and the reason was readily explained: Mrs Tiffen was dead, and had been for several years.

Quark!--the Quarkbeast

You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.

Webster seemed to me either a man without a past, or a man eager not to have one.

Who's that?" I hissed. "Harris Tweed," replied Havisham. "Dangerous and arrogant but quite brilliant—for a man." "Who

There's weird shit about; take it for luck.' 'I'm beginning to think there's no such thing.' 'My point precisely.

The leader was identified by his dental records—why he had them on him, no one was quite sure.

Why does everyone think I've been in prison?" "Because you were heading towards either death or prison when we last met—and you are not dead.

She had drawn circles around her eyes, which were joined by a line across the bridge of her nose. It was a traditional mark of her calling, but no one knew why.

I tried to think of a reasonable opening line, as I had several things to say that could be described as witty OR intelligent, but not both. Quite WHY I needed to talk to her I had no idea.

He was shot dead in the old town during a bookbuy that went wrong.

That 'gleeful darting of the house martins' stuff sounds suspiciously like the work of Jade-under-Lime's resident verse mercenary, Gerald Henna-Rose.

The Nursery Crime Division was not disbanded and is still active to this day.

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

Los dioses han ocultado lo que hace vivir a los hombres.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

The law is so complex and voluminous that no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand it all. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their way to make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legal professionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try to keep the law mysterious and inaccessible.