“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.” IfsNeedsShouldBookAmericaGivenChanceMysteryTasteSucceedShould HaveSellsAshamedTrash Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
“I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.” ThinkingShouldLittlesEndsCertainBitsPerfectMysteryLimitsLittle BitShould HaveClarityInscrutable Author:Billy Collins
“I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantCertainStuffAudienceToo MuchMysteryDirectorsShould HaveBoringInterpretationNot InterestedCommentary Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.” ThinkingKnowsWayShouldWritingTryingSaidI CanSometimesHappensBeautifulSongKnow HowToo MuchMysterySpecialLike YouShould HaveBlessGod BlessChannelingThinking Too Much Author:Kimbra
“Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.” NeedsShouldGuyUniverseEnemyMysteryShould HaveBusyDemonContemplatingFree Time Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.” ShouldMatterScienceSexGenerationsMysteryMankindShould HaveSpeciesClayReproduction Author:Martin Luther
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.” ShouldHas BeensSelfMatterEnoughStarsPowerfulMysteryDrawsShould HavePrisonDenyThrownNothingnessShould Have Been Author:Andre Malraux
“I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingRunningLyingLeftBehindsSunSawsMysteryHugeMountainShould HaveMachinesDiedLaysRanEnginesCriedAmazedSteamStinkMountain Top Book:Mother Night: A Novel Source: Mother Night: A Novel