It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don’t want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?
You know, there’s that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound – well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don’t have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time – and sometimes the mystery is never solved.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
I want the reader to know what’s going on. So there’s never a mystery in my books.
I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell – I love him, and I think he was a great coach – but I hear he’s going to build a house on some island. He’s going to divorce himself from football, and that’s a mystery to me.
‘True Detective’ is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That’s what we shoot for.
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
That’s what everyone said attracted them to Lantana – I call it an adult mystery, because it’s not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
There wasn’t really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on ‘Mystery Train’ or ‘Milkcow Blues’ or what Bill Monroe was playing or what Flatt and Scruggs was playing; it was rock ‘n’ roll to me.
The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
I think for me I’m always… I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I’m attracted to that mystery.
The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn’t in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
The universe is a great mystery.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Trinidad was an opportunity to start all over again, to have another stab at it. The mystery and atmosphere of the place have entered my palette a lot more than I thought they would.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
I’ve never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I’m not a good roommate. I’m better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.
After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?
It’s a cosmic joke that I’m a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not ‘shock and awe’, just ‘awe.’
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
It’s not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents’ success.
Though ‘Child’s Play’ is ultimately more concerned with subverting storytelling expectations and satirizing the expected trajectory of traditional mystery, Posadas does embed some insights about the writer’s responsibility to the reader.
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public’s need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I’m in. So I’m no expert on it.
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer’s head, to learn something we didn’t know before.
Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.
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.
The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we’ve all got it.
The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There’s a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.
A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It’s a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
I don’t know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he’s funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don’t think that there’s any real mystery there.
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that’s made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
