Mystify Quotes

#1. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams

#2. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#3. mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Sun Tzu

#4. The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

#5. Good magic opens the mysteries to all; bad magic seeks simply to mystify.

Theodore Roszak

#6. The average man is not hard to mystify.

Howard Thurston

#7. One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

Astra Taylor

#8. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Marc Newson

#9. We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Bill Paxton

#10. We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.

Steven Brust

#11. You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Harvey MacKay

#12. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Sun Tzu

#13. The road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

Walt Whitman

#14. My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Man Ray

#15. My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.

Howard Thurston

#16. Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#17. If you want to hold a crowd, just mystify it.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#18. Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Don Roff

#19. When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Bob Dylan

#20. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.

Anita Roddick

#21. He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

Ovid

#22. Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

Elisabeth Elliot

#23. Once the behavior finally drops off (this could take as long as an hour or two) and you take a break from the dog for awhile, you should expect to go through the same experience again when you return. This

Pamela J. Reid

#24. Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Rand Paul

#25. I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Grace Paley

#26. Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and trial and error, with nerd-driven design confined to the backstage.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb