“My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.” DoeBookFactsMotherLinesNovelMysteryAdventureDadMurderMy DadObsessionSpyGrandmaMachoMy GrandmaMurder MysteriesAdventure BooksShoguns Author:Christopher Bollen
“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.” PeopleWayWantHardFactsFilmSexPowerfulEmotionMysteryAspectFlatsMysticalDoorwaysExplicit Author:David Lynch
“What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.” WantMayIdeasFactsShowsRealityFormSoundBehindsExistenceMysterySeekingInvisibleBridgesVisibleParadoxical Author:Max Beckmann
“For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.” WritingArtFactsMysteryConditionsConstantWestMusicalGravesWorks Of ArtCompositionJoyceEpithetMusical Composition Book:Real Presences Source: Real Presences
“These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.” HumansFactsMysteryCreatorSupremeHuman Knowledge Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.” IfsMeanFactsSeemsMysteryFansDuesThese DaysOnlineConventionsRecluse Author:Bentley Little
“Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only one which seemes to have neither been anticipated nor invented by Walter Bagehot. It was he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic'.” Has BeensFactsMagicMysteryModernMankindUniversalBritishBrilliantPhrasesMemorableRoyaltyMonarchyDaylightBritish HistoryConstitutional Monarchy Author:David Cannadine
“Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.” NeedsHas BeensFactsUseProblemSpiritPurposeWiseMysteryAtheismHumilityIntegrityMajorsPhilosophicalRemainsPositive AtheismObjectivesMajor ProblemsDispassionate Author:Herbert J. Muller
“To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.” WayMayFactsMovingBehindsFantasyImagineMysteryAtheismPositive AtheismMysteriousSpiteImagine ThatMysterious Ways Author:Barbara Smoker
“The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?” HumansFactsHandsUniverseDecisionBrainKnownFateMysteryObjectsBehaviorConsequenceFortuneHuman BehaviorFistsHuman BrainUnsolved Mysteries Author:Daniel Gilbert