Quotes About Mystery

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

But everyone asks me who my dad is and I will never reveal it. It's too much ammunition for the internet.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.