Quotes About Mystery

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

I kind of love walking around with something nobody else knows about in my back pocket.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want people to think. I want to make people listen to my lyrics.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.