Mysteries Quotes

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.
Joyce Maynard

Love, School, Girl

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
John Hawkes

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
Bram Stoker

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

Good, Fun, Making

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.
Grover Norquist

Car, Different, Try

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

Believing, Virtue, Supreme

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
Anthony Hecht

Children, Parents, Reveal

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Good, Why, Kids

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

Smart, Greatest, Made

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

Life, Nature, Spiritual

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali

Nature, Focus, Important

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Denise Mina

Reading, Quite, Interested

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
Paul Davies

Life, Great, Science

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter

Together, Dark, Same

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Jennifer Weiner

Men, Write, Times

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
Kate Atkinson

Loved, Decide, Case

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
Robert Vaughn

Same, Answers, Searched

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

History, Science, Poetry

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

Science, Enjoy, Rather

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
Laurel Clark

Someone, Why, Sometimes

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

Life, Love, Happy

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
Fred Saberhagen

Fear, Fun, Write

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

Writing, Jokes, Readers

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
Donna Leon

School, Through, Read

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
John Cameron

Good, Understand, Research

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
Robert Zemeckis

Life, Understand, Lived

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
David Eagleman

Life, Science, Successful

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
David Eagleman

Wonderful, Confront

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
Timothy Olyphant

Life, Great, Anyone

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Pierre Loti

Through, Study, Creations

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