Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Taylor

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

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.

Seamus Heaney

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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.

Haruki Murakami

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Chris Martin

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.