Quotes About Mystery

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!

For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Generally when there's a lot of smoke... there's just a whole lot more smoke.

I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

felt like mysteries were being unveiled and yet it all felt familiar and more like I was being reminded of things I had already known. I had a sense of initiation into dimensions of existence most people never know exist, including the distinct sense that death was illusory, in the sense that it is a door we walk through into another plane of existence, that we're sprung from an eternity to which we will return.

once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.

One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball and peeled pieces off of it to see what was inside. Only the ball was really radioactive, and they all died from the poison. I think that's what happens when you look too deep inside for the truth. The poison comes out, and you die, even though you have beautiful glowing pieces of blue truth in your fingers.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.

at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying

Flamme — l'âme s'effile comme une lame.

Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

He's not wearing…" Charlotte began. "I know. He doesn't," Lydia answered.

You're a walking Christmas light? No, he said a little defensively. I'm a powerful warlock.

Magic doesn't work like that. You have to have intent and focus, but not think about it. - Aunt Polly

Shut your mouth, Florus, or the ghosts will get in. The disembodied are always looking to hitch a ride in the right vessel. - Aunt Polly

She'd just seen her dead grandmother and had a lovesick warlock on her lawn. The last thing she needed was to worry about extraterrestrial probing.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.