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Quotes About Mystery

Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.
~ Janet Evanovich
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.
~ Nicolas Cage
Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.
~ Rachel Marsden
You want me to describe Elvis, wow!
~ Shania Twain
"Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.
~ Ally Carter
I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
~ Ally Carter
It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
~ Andrew Scott
The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
~ Annie Dillard
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].
~ Atom Egoyan
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
~ Ayn Rand
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
~ Billy Corgan
It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.
~ Bob Odenkirk
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
~ Brigid Brophy
He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. "You want to tell me what this is?" he demanded. "It's a door, Jace," said Clary.
~ Cassandra Clare
Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?
~ Cassandra Clare
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out
~ Chaka Khan
Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.
~ Cornelia Funke
When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.
~ Dan Bejar
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.
~ David Lynch
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
~ E. L. Konigsburg