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Quotes About Mystery

Jake,' zei de vrouw... 'Mam...
~ James Rollins
The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one of the torsos jerked into the darkened alley beyond, dragged by something hidden in shadow.
~ James Rollins
But no death rode this breeze.
~ James Rollins
A secret sold does not require a buyer's belief. It's a value unto itself.
~ James Rollins
Oh... It's a thing.
~ James Rollins
That's the beauty of the universe. There's always a new mystery.
~ James Rollins
All God's angels come to us disguised.
~ James Russell Lowell
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell
But all God's angels come to us disguised...
~ James Russell Lowell
And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.
~ James St. James
He glanced at Artison. "They couldn't even kill you if they tried." "What are you talking about? Why not?" "Because," Larria whispered, "You're already dead.
~ James Stewart
Captain, someone is stealing the Enterprise.
~ James Swallow
You are a ghost, a figure that stands between light and dark, trapped amid the grey. And I have need of such a man." - Malcador the Sigillite
~ James Swallow
His smile grew into a feral grin. "Beyond all this… and into the mirror.
~ James Swallow
The City is of Night; perchance of Death,But certainly of Night.
~ James Thomson
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
~ James Thurber
Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
~ James Thurber
She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
~ James Thurber
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
~ James Thurber
Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard that they had known on the day it happened.
~ Donna Tartt
to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good
~ Donna Tartt
the secret visible only to me: blooming in the darkness and never once mentioned by name.
~ Donna Tartt
I saw this at about three o'clock in the morning, alone in my apartment, on a black-and-white set with lots of interference. White noise and snow. He seemed to be speaking directly at me, right out of the television set. For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?
~ Donna Tartt
Y eso es lo que hacen todos los grandes maestros. Rembrandt. Velázquez. Lo último de Tiziano. Construyen la ilusión, el truco…, pero te acercas un paso más y se desintegra en pinceladas. Abstracto, como de otro mundo. Una clase de belleza totalmente diferente y mucho más profunda. Es y no es.
~ Donna Tartt