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Mystery Quotes


"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."


"The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild."


"The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me."


"I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery."


"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."


"The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it."


"That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery."


"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."


"No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery."


"Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived."


"As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either."


"What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?"


"That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else."


"I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery."


"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."


"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."


"There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from."


"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."


"The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns."


"Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away."


"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."


"I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher."


"We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour."


"When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation."


"There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite."


"Success is the shyest creature, blushes when you court it, jilts you when you propose to it, reneges later and perhaps blushes again."


"Even a whale is concealed by darkness."
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