Quotes About Mystery

And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. Not a physical presence, but an idea, something beyond man's ability to comprehend, something larger. The

No mystery surrounded his nickname: he was enormous and he was filthy. Pig smelled so bad it confused people. When they encountered his reek, they looked around him for the source, so implausible did it seem that the odor could emanate from a human.

Michael Ray Taylor

Prowl along the fringes of residential neighborhoods until you find the word "sucker" scratched into a tree or fencepost, usually with an arrow indicating the proper house.

Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.

She was called Victoria because she had beaten us in battle seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret.

Like pigeons.' 'What's so mysterious about pigeons?' 'They're always the same size. You never see baby pigeons or old-age pigeons.

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

Awareness is the ultimate sacred wonder.

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —J. J. Van der Leeuw

And no one on the surface had any idea of its fate. The

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

It is said that the Magic of Air or Fire or even Earth is the most powerful magic of all. But that is wrong. The Magic of Water surpasses all others, for water is both the lifegiver and the deathbringer.

Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.

It was some time ago—in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time—a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.

The sliding glass door opened and Isis and Osiris appeared. They were dressed in plain white ceramic armor and were each carrying two swords, one in each hand. "They look like they just stepped out of Star Wars ," Josh muttered. He began to hum the Imperial March under his breath.

Zephaniah creía que las tradiciones misteriosas suponían una amenaza, y, por lo tanto, se dedicó a destruirlas. Pero no olvides que la sabiduría nunca es peligrosa -insistió Tsagaglal-. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es el modo en el que se usa.

Vóór de Alouden hebben de twaalf Archonen over de wereld geheerst.' 'Vóór de Alouden?' 'De wereld is ouder en woester dan je denkt.' De kraaiengodin glimlachte. 'Veel ouder. Veel woester.

Magic is just science we do not comprehend yet; perhaps the angelic and the demonic are visitors from unknown lands.