Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
Roman Jakobson

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Pamela Stephenson

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Dean Inge

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
Brent Scowcroft

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Thomas More

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Robert Vaughn

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Max Muller

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Anthony Hecht

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
Leni Riefenstahl

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
David Herbert Donald

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
David Lean

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
Heather O'Rourke

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Martha Gellhorn

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
Armistead Maupin

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Origen

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
P. D. James

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone Weil

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
Charles de Lint