Quotes About Mystery

Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one!

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

I never talk about my next project.

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

'Eastern Promises' is great.

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

Fermat said he had a proof.

Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

I want to bring magic back to where it started, which is not about the props, and it's not about me as a magician: it's about the audience and playing with their minds and playing with their perception of magic and having fun with it.

I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.