Quotes tagged ‘Mystery’

“Dre: What do you mean, find Tariq? Tommy: He's missing, Dre. They asked Tasha for money. So you tell me, who is Slim?”

— Monica Mitchell, Tommy Egan, Joseph Sikora, imdb.com

“A good riddle reveals the asker. To solve it is to solve the mystery of the person posing it.”

— Megan Mostyn-Brown, Edward Nygma / The Riddler, Cory Michael Smith, imdb.com

“Shawn: We find the mystery lover, we find her. Gus: Dude. Why don’t I ever get to say things like that?”

— Anupam Nigam, Burton 'Gus' Guster, Dule Hill, imdb.com

“It's a mystery. And I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now.”

— George Clayton Johnson, James T. Kirk, William Shatner, imdb.com

“Don't worry about me. I'm like a biscotti. People act like I'm this sweet cookie, but I'm really this super hard thing that nobody knows what I am or why I am.”

— Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan, Kimmy Schmidt, Ellie Kemper, imdb.com

“The utter silence of the untranslated stars.”

— E. E Cummings, poets.org

“The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.”

— Antonin Scalia, nytimes.com

“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”

— Robert Greene, amazon.com

“I can't explain it, but sitting there under the stars, I felt at peace for the first time in days.”

— Brian Yorkey, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com

“You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I’m a mystery.”

— Joss Whedon, Malcolm Reynolds, Nathan Fillion, imdb.com

“Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks — some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about…”

— Mark Frost, David Lynch, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com

“Who knows why people do the awful things that they do?”

— Coleman Herbert, Sarah Lane, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com

“From the first day I turned up at practice to the last game I played, I quite deliberately cultivated an air of mystery among my teammates. I liked my teammates a great deal, more than I could ever show them then because I believed, as a matter of choice, that, in remaining unseen, who I was or what…”

— Bill Russell, csmonitor.com

“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“I'm the opposite of every guy you've ever met.”

— Andy Cowan, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Glamour is an attitude—it’s the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She’s dramatic—almost untouchable.”

— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com

“We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com

“Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com

“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”

— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com

“One mother was nurturing while the other was neurotic; one father was missing -- the eternal mystery -- while the other, who wasn't my father but the one I called Daddy, was around. He was a good man who liked his liquor.”

— Etta James, amazon.com