Quotes About Mystery

It's one of the great mysteries to me how anybody who has ever believed in socialism can conceivably vote for Blair or New Labour, which is further to the right of any Tory government apart from that of John Major, and is taking privatisation into realms unheard-of.

I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress.

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.

The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a simple motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is.

The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.

What bugs us, or should, is our lack of understanding about what is actually happening.

On the other hand, in the memorable words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

But honest physicists admit that we don't truly understand quantum mechanics.

What in the world is going on with that?

finding evidence for the divine in the gaps in our physical understanding. Likewise,

There may be no ultimate answer to the "Why?" question. The universe simply is, in this particular way, and that's a brute fact.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Keep smiling... it makes people wonder what you're up to.

If I explained it to you, your brain would explode.

Whether we listen to a sonata of Beethoven's, watch highlight reels of Michael Jordan, or learn a law of Newton's, we view extraordinary human skills as gifts granted by unknown forces for unknown reasons. Such an explanation is convenient, but is it correct?

Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved.

The Great Mystery of Genius