2,752 Quotes About Mystery

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.

...her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.