- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
- Creative Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless they've had some experience with it, the hospice is still a mystery to most people. Because hospice deals with death, people tend not to talk about it.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020