Unscrutable Quotes

#1. Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.

Lewis Thomas

#2. If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.

Daniel Webster

#3. Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Ken Kesey

#4. For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ...

Ray Bradbury

#5. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

Reggie White

#6. ...Pigpen's currently sitting on as he drinks a beer.
He's been Violet's shadow since Eli left town with Cyrus a few days ago.

Katie McGarry

#7. I looked at him like a stranger, someone I'd never seen before, and he looked at me like I'd been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.

Emme Rollins

#8. Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Italo Calvino

#9. If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

Sarah Morgan

#11. I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

Richard DeVos

#12. When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Steve Earle

#14. My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

Ellsworth Kelly

#15. Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

Traudl Junge

#16. Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

Donald Barthelme