Quotes with mystery

Quotes 61 till 80 of 95.

  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Barbara Hershey 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.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Candace Camp The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Francis Bacon The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Al McGuire The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
    Al McGuire
    American basketball coach and broadcaster (1928 - 2001)
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  • B. F. Skinner The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
    Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Harry Houdini The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Camille Paglia The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anais Nin The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Annie Leibovitz There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Volkov There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
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  • Joseph Conrad There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bliss Carman There paused to shut the door
    A fellow called the Wind,
    With mystery before,
    And reticence behind.
    At the Granite Gate
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Britten These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
    Letters from a Life Volume 3
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • R. I. Fitzhenry Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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  • Martha Graham We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Jules Renard We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Springsteen We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
    Guitar magazine July 1999
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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