Quotes About Mystery

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.