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Quotes About Mystery

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.
~ George Burns
The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.
~ Mohamed Al-Fayed
Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.
~ Steve Allen
I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.
~ Grover Norquist
theism is an addiction. We're all addicted to hope - hope that the doubt and mystery will go away.
~ Pema Chodron
like most people, they know one another inside out, and not at all.
~ Penelope Lively
It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown.
~ Penelope Lively
Ghosts?' Said Mrs Verity. 'Why, good gracious, I could tel you a thing or two about ghosts. Believe in them? Well, what I always say is, we don't know the answers to everything, do we? I mean, there's some things in this world you can't explain and maybe we're not meant to.
~ Penelope Lively
A mesma verdade que existe na verdade. Se consome pelo uso. Ou se reforça pela ausência. Ou nem coisa nem outra. O mistério permanece e nos espanta sempre.
~ Unknown
Lost in the mystery of finding myself alive.
~ Unknown
I wish I could take a quick trip to the Legacy Orchard right about now and do some research on strange forests and talking animals! This is definitely someone else's story,' she thought. Still, it sounded like this forest had a mystery that needed solving and some animals that needed helping. Rosabella was always looking out for woodland friends in trouble.
~ Unknown
secrets have the power to break the world into two
~ Pete Hautman
I'll show you." He ran upstairs and got the notebook. "It's Gramps's Book of Secrets.
~ Pete Hautman
Elly's eyes were huge and her mouth was open and she was clutching her hands over her chest. Her mouth was moving but he couldn't hear what she was saying. She looked weirdly pale, even her clothes. "Elly?" She held out her hands. As she was about to touch him, her fingers became foggy tendrils. He could see right through her, as if she had turned to mist. "Elly?" he said. He reached out for her, but she was gone.
~ Pete Hautman
The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Those who wander are always objects of suspicion and sometimes even of fear.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The less you see, the more you can imagine.
~ Peter Ackroyd
what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothing, for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?
~ Peter Ackroyd
When the first sarsen stone was raised in the circle of Stonehenge, the land we
~ Peter Ackroyd
the Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Marriage is a mystery.
~ Peter Behrens
Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.
~ Peter Behrens
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
~ Peter Benchley