Quotes About Mystery

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

I was in a phase when I was obsessed - I still am - with fortunetellers and psychics.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

ABC's Lost' consumes me. Everything about it is phenomenal.

Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

True Dare Kiss' is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her - which I can't reveal.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.

I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition.