Quotes About Mystery

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Trinidad was an opportunity to start all over again, to have another stab at it. The mystery and atmosphere of the place have entered my palette a lot more than I thought they would.

I think its a very British thing, murder mystery, and I think 'Death in Paradise' is an extension of that, just adding something a bit different.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

If there is life out there that's so much more advanced than we are, and they know either how to travel great distances in short amounts of time, or they're able to come from a parallel universe into ours, why don't they just come and show themselves?

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal.

I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

I think I'm always going to be a paranormal girl at heart. I'm always going to be intrigued by it.

There's a lot of paranormal activity in my family. Whether it is more than most other families is hard to say, but we seem to have more than most.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

'The Conversation' is one that, if you watch 'The Conversation' for the opening sequence, where you hear a conversation taking place as the master - this zoom from way up is zooming in over a park. And I was just absolutely blown away by it because you can hear exactly what's happening, but you don't see. You've got no idea who's talking.

Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure.

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.

I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.

Whatever happens "here below" is but a pale reflection of what takes place "up above.

Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")

Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.

If modern dervishes are no more than "traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for the presence of such wild free spirits, just as it needs the presence of some wilderness, unplanned, unmanaged, apparently profitless, chaotic as God first made it. (And both of these needs seem to fall under the patronage of the master traveler, Khezr himself).

Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

Peter Levenda