Zitat des Tages über Geheimnis / Mystery:
I am a mystery to myself.
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
There's a certain level of comfort that comes when you move in together. The mystery is gone. She starts dressing for bed in your pajamas, cream on her face, Uggs, curlers. What happened to the sexy girl that used to come to bed in lingerie? The girl says, 'We don't need to act.'
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
