Quotes About Mystery

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

As a lover, I'm about as impressive as a magician on the radio.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run.

I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?