All Quotes

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
‐‐ Godfrey Reggio

Mystery is not profoundness.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
‐‐ Angela Lansbury

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
‐‐ Sophia Bush

Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.
‐‐ Kel Mitchell

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
‐‐ Joel Hodgson

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
‐‐ Anne Perry

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
‐‐ Iris Johansen

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
‐‐ Roland Barthes

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
‐‐ Dustin Hoffman

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
‐‐ Eric Kripke

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.
‐‐ Ann Nocenti

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
‐‐ Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
‐‐ Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
‐‐ Nina Fedoroff

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
‐‐ Joseph Campbell

Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
‐‐ Jane Yolen

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.
‐‐ Alex Ferguson

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
‐‐ George Orwell