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Quotes About Mystery

Remember when we were witches.
~ Ariel Gore
There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.
~ Ariel Levy
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~ Aristotle
I should have had to look under its
~ Armand Marie Leroi
Mona knocked at the wrong time. "Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- " Mona shouted through the door. "Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up." Michael grinned at Jon. "My roommate. Brace yourself." Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. "Hi! I'm Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!
~ Armistead Maupin
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
~ Art Hoppe
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.
~ Art Spiegelman
LEGGE DI HALDANE L'universo non è soltanto più bizzarro di quanto ci immaginiamo: è più bizzarro di quanto ci possiamo immaginare.
~ Arthur Bloch
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
'Tis the night — the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they — it is they.
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!
~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
~ M. J. Rose
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
~ Saul Perlmutter
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
~ Kathy Reichs