Mystery Quotes - Page 32

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns. I wrote tiny little slices of life, sent them off to The Sewanee Review, and they always sent them back. For the first 10 years I was published, I'd say, "I'm a writer disguised as a mystery writer." But then I look back, and well, maybe I'm a mystery writer. You tend to go where you're liked, so when the mysteries were being published, I did more of them.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

Why are there not positive mysteries? It's always who stole the diamond, or who killed the butler? How about... who made cookies, somebody cleaned my room.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

A mystery is solved with a story.

A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.