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Quotes About Mystery

Lieutenant J. C. Day's work was that he couldn't find fingerprints. Normally there would be prints on the barrel of the rifle and the stock.
~ Jim Bishop
He placed the bullet into a device. "Just as I thought," he said. "This is not 7.35. It is 6.5 millimeter. Did the Secret Service man know which stretcher it was on?" "No," Todd said. "The
~ Jim Bishop
There was a separate small hole in the back of the head. There was a long vertical
~ Jim Bishop
The deputy chief also noticed a dent in the chrome plating at the top of the windshield. This was old, but he did not know it.
~ Jim Bishop
Watch your step," said Slash. Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?" Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball.
~ Jim C. Hines
As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.
~ Jim C. Hines
Something weird wants to kill us? Cool! Where did it come from, and how does it work?
~ Jim C. Hines
It's certain that you cannot tell from how a person works or how a person strolls behind her hens what kind of life they live in secrecy.
~ Jim Crace
I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)
~ Jim Dodge
The Fourth Wiseman delivered his gift and slipped away.
~ Jim Dodge
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
~ Jim Harrison
El placer estriba en que te engañen sin ser capaz de descubrir cómo lo hicieron.
~ Jim Hougan
When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected. Spooky. (Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive)
~ Jim Jarmusch
I believe, as I am sure you believe, that eventually everything is known. Eventually it will become to somebody's interest to tell. Secrets are like meat; they can be frozen or eaten but not kept.
~ Jim Lehrer
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
~ Jim Morrison
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.
~ Jim Morrison
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
~ Jim Morrison
I'm beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart.
~ Jim Palmer
Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is so mysterious as to require identification by what it isn't.
~ Jim Paul
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
~ Jim Thompson
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
~ Jim Thompson
There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.
~ Jim Thompson
God is bigger than people think.
~ Jimmy Dean
7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter
~ Jimmy Swaggart