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Quotes About Mystery

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
~ Charlotte Bronte
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
~ Federico Fellini
Any good movie is filled with secrets.
~ Mike Nichols
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
~ Jean Cocteau
The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.
~ Lord Kelvin
The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
~ Martin Luther
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.
~ Terry Pratchett
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
~ Anita Shreve
She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
~ Edward Abbey
I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.
~ Jeremy Renner
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
~ Julia Quinn
I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.
~ Karen Chance
Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.
~ Maureen Johnson
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.
~ Publilius Syrus
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
~ Orson Scott Card
What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
~ Robert Kazinsky
Good God, what did he not remember?
~ Tammara Webber