Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Mark Steyn

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

Philip Guston

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

Penn Jillette

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Marianne Williamson

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Gore Vidal

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Jean M. Auel

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

Chris Martin

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

Ferdinand Foch

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Marvin Minsky

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Elizabeth Goudge

Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

It is shocking, mysterious and devastating and I don't understand it!

Nellie Bly

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

Jeff Goldblum

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Paul Theroux

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

Gail Godwin

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Sam Keen

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Terence McKenna

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Lewis Thomas

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Steven Pinker

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.