Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

William Butler Yeats

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

Walter Scott

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Veronica Roth

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

Kevin Furtado

It's part of the mystery of the grape. I thought there would be more of a formula, but there isn't. I have a lot of respect for the winegrowers in the Russian River Valley.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

Manouchehr Mottaki

I predict that the irrational American view will not prevail in the Security Council.

Joe Hill

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Karen Harris

Upset is an understatement. He was irrational and verbally abusive.

Michel Onfray

Religion is an irrational construct.

Gregory Allen

She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,

Sgt. Maynard

He was very incoherent and made irrational statements on scene.

Orson Scott Card

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.