Mystifies Me Quotes

#1. Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#2. I hate with a vengeance having to go anywhere near Ronald McFucking Donald with his bright red scary hair, yellow fucktard suit, pasty white powdery skin, and obscenely high eyebrows. How the hell he doesn't bother every person on this planet mystifies me.

K.M. Golland

#3. I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

Courtney Love

#4. Something that simply mystifies me.

Cole Porter

#5. I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

Helen Slater

#6. My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.

Benjamin Whorf

#7. She waited. She waited so excruciatingly long that she could physically feel the time pass; a binding in her chest, her breath shallow and raspy. Silence seemed to stuff itself in her ears like cotton balls.

Daniel Younger

#8. Shouting from the rooftops tells us that many people sitting in church on Sunday don't know why they're there or what's taking place. They've received the sacraments, but they've never encountered Jesus Christ in a meaningful and personal way.

Scott Hahn

#9. I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

Christian Bale

#10. For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

Michael Chabon

#11. Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

Zainab Salbi

#12. I don't know why I deserved the illness in the first place, but then I don't know why I deserved to be cured. Leukemia is like that. It mystifies you. It changes your life.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#13. Once you are truly seduced by profession of writing, you clock in one time ... and never clock out. You dwell in a creative space with the pure joy of embracing the very moment that mystifies others because no vacation is ever taken or desired. Perfecting your craft is your calm.

Carl Henegan

#14. We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

Karl Lagerfeld

#15. The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Alexander Herrmann

#16. Knowing yourself is life's eternal homework

Felicia Day

#17. I am not me. I am not my body. I am my love, my kindness, and my service.

Debasish Mridha

#18. If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

John Lancaster Spalding

#19. The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

John Guare

#20. Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

Rob Sheffield

#21. There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

Ted Nugent

#22. We all make decisions as though we will live forever.

Lucinda Riley

#23. I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

Andy Rooney

#24. When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Roger Zelazny

#25. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

#26. So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)

Mev Puleo

#27. The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Keith Haring

#28. I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino