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The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

I had speaking darshans with Osho in the early days of sannyas, my relationship with him has never been a personal one. It was and still is an inner one, something deeply connected with the mysterious world of meditation. However, as I moved deeper into meditation, so did my relationship with Osho change and become more intimate.

The idea is to look at Mars and not think of it as a mysterious alien place.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

It's like a giant, worldwide mysterious jigsaw puzzle that will come to life for all the world to solve.

It's a process by which the airlines, the carriers, actually are required to go through a series of steps to identify and know and vet the shippers so that there's not any kind of mysterious entity out there,

The odd thing was that, no matter how much time he saved, he never had any to spare; in some mysterious way, it simply vanished.

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

There seems to be a void. I don't know why there aren't more R&B groups -- that's the mysterious question.

It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

It is shocking, mysterious and devastating and I don't understand it!

This is the mysterious world which is available to you if you can pass the jungle of questions and doubts and reach into the clear, where there are no questions and doubts, and no answers either. Just you are in utter silence, with immense clarity, with tremendous sharpness.

They're silly, because they just point out how phenomenally advanced Tiger was, that he was able to find the right recipe very early on. It's a complex, almost mysterious thing. It's the physical game, but there are so many other elements. And maybe the key thing is how people figure their own path. See what works for them, and find it. And accept that every timetable is different. That takes maturity, and that's why it's still a game where you reach your prime in your 30s.

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Grades count more at some, community service at others. Some admissions committees look closely at recommendations, others don't. Athletic or musical talent can sometimes boost your chances. The criteria cover a wide range of variables that often interact in complex ways. But the mysterious admissions process really comes down to nothing more than matching the strengths of the various applicants against the attributes a particular college is looking for.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding the dual office of king and priest.

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.