Mystic Quotations

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Plotinus was a first rate synthetic philosopher that combined and illustrated the best aspects of prior philosophers and added his own mystic insights. His concepts are consonant with about 70% of Christian divine mechanics interestingly. The idea He had about a river of creation flowing eternally from 'The One' that is 'translated from a realm of forms or intellect into material composition reminds me quite a lot of Jesus' discussion about 'the water of life' from which she would never thirst, as Jesus was God for-himself. It is disappointing that so many have simply been formed within a non-philosophical, purely materialist intellectual criterion that is implicitly biased.

I think the applicants went over and beyond the expectations of the commission. ... The building will complement downtown Mystic development historically and economically.

Mystic is the Cadillac of southeastern Connecticut's tourist area. This (certificate) has been a long haul.

Merchants are very much looking forward to the new streetscape. Anything that makes the town more pedestrian-friendly will strengthen the pulling power for the greater Mystic attractions.

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.

We're going to turn Mystic green ... except for the river.

A touch divine - / And the scaled eyeball owns the mystic rod; / Visibly through his garden walketh God.

Sometimes it worries me. I feel something's got to give. I know what Harry Secombe meant when he said he's worried that one day the phone will ring and a mystic voice will say, 'Thank you, Mr Secombe. Now can we have it all back?'

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.

They used to say when I was a kid, 'Well, he's a Babe Ruth.' Any kid my age who hit a home run they would say 'Wow, he's a Babe Ruth' - in the Dominican. I didn't hear people say 'He's a Hank Aaron.' There's something mystic about the Babe, the name. ... Santa Claus.

Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs, rattle of key in lock, door opened -- and there lamp held high above his head, stands your dark Celtic velvet inspired mystic eloquent refined W.B.Y. himself, the William Blake of this smaller generation.

The audiences all over Europe are great. They really appreciate the music. Italy - there is such a warm spirit there. It maybe have something to do with it being on the Mediterranean. I am a little mystic about it. It is the way that people live. People don't live in a lifestyle based on competition so the stress level is not as prominent.

Howard has given so much to Mystic Seaport. He's so willing to share what he knows with visitors and staff alike. He means so much to the place and so much to what Mystic Seaport is about.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi

The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.