Mystery Quotes

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

~ Dana Stabenow

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

~ Abraham Verghese

Chance is life's only certainty.

~ Mickey Wyte

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

~ Reginald Hill

Virginia screamed, grabbing for the door handle and nearly throwing herself from the moving car. James swerved to the side of the road, slamming on the brakes before she killed herself trying to escape. As it was, she flung herself from the car, falling to her knees and scrambling to her feet. Then she ran. Took off like a bolt until she rounded the bend and disappeared from view. 'Way to go, slick,' AJ said snarkily, climbing into the front seat. 'You ran her off.

~ Brandi Salazar

You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased. 'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?

~ Brandi Salazar

Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.

~ Russ Gregory

A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up inside of him.

~ Brandi Salazar

A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history....Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman. First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.

~ Stephanie Bond

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1)Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you've been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?Remember your private detective wants to be able to sleep soundly at night and in their own bed, not one supplied as her Majesty's pleasure.It seems to be an open and shut case doesn't it? But it's not you know? How do you know if anything is what it seems?But where is Cheung kin?When I first set eyes on your father, he was spying on a man from between two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.I don't think I need say more. On the contrary, if you want me to have any idea what you're talking about, I think you do.Why don't you report it to the police? Because I stole it in the first place didn't I?It's something of a mystery, I admit.Vanished into thin air!You sound so sensible Mrs Hetherington. Please help us get to the bottom of this.Ah, thought Jane – the old story.No body was found?Shall I put the kettle on? Only if you fill it with whiskey.The course of true love didn't run smoothly for me either, you know.Life has its tragedies for sure.… What do I want? I want money that's what I want. I want money.She was even more horrified by the words she heard next.Callum MacCallum knew what it was like to be an outsider.

~ Nina Jon

Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.

~ Stephanie Bond

Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a man wield a gun in real life--it was kind of a turn-on to know that he'd protected her. Of course he had protected everyone, but he _had_ sort of singled her out by heaving her to the floor.

~ Stephanie Bond

Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck.

~ Mcgrath M. J.

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

~ Terri Blackstock

If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.

~ Czech Proverb

It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.

~ Tom Cheetham

Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Question marks are met with periodsBy people full of arroganceThey have every answer, nothing mysteriousAnd yet they have no evidence.

~ Justin Wetch

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

~ Antonin Scalia

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

~ Kate Mara

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

~ Isabel Allende

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

~ Winnie Holzman

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

~ Rick Riordan

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

~ Carl Hiaasen

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

~ Elia Kazan

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

~ Alexandra Daddario

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

~ Luis Barragán

The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

~ Walter Reisch

Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.

~ Chris Adami

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

~ Clive Thompson

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

~ Jim Woodring

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

~ Zahi Hawass

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

~ Harry Dean Stanton

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

~ George R. R. Martin

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

~ George R. R. Martin

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

~ Carolina Herrera