Mystifies Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Something that simply mystifies me.

Cole Porter

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Helen Slater

#13. 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

#14. We're going to die," Pip declared.
"Maybe," Terry replied.
"Damn," was all Fergus managed.
Three shook her head. "We won't die.

Addison Lane

#15. I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

Samuel Barnett

#16. Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom-physical, mental, and spiritual-and help others to do so.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#18. And I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Paulo Coelho

#19. If you want it, you've got to give it.

Lenny Wilkens

#20. Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.

Orhan Pamuk

#21. I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day ... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

Raymond Burr

#22. The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Pedro Almodovar

#23. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants ... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.

Rhonda Byrne

#24. These boxes held only ashes of answers, and all their presence meant was more mysteries, and a worry that someday something else might explode.

Bliss Broyard

#25. Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

Neil Armstrong