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I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.
The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.
I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!
I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.
Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.