Quotes About Mystery

I love writing thrillers.

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

I love thrillers.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.

I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

I know plenty of people who live in the country who have never seen a badger. They are definitely there, but these nocturnal delights remain elusive, and thus are still a thrill.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

'21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.

I love looking at pictures of nebulas and reading articles about black holes and dark matter - I always tie it into spirituality.

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.