- Conduit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do is create an aura of mystery.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
- Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020