Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?
In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.
Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
