Quote by Tom Alford

She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because you told me she is beautiful, and little else, leaving the rest to mystery, and thereby making her very mysterious.

She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because

Summary

This quote emphasizes the speaker's perception of someone's beauty and mystery. The speaker interprets the person based on limited information received, stating that due to being described as beautiful with little additional detail, they appear mysterious. The quote highlights how subjective perceptions and limited knowledge can contribute to building a sense of fascination and intrigue around someone.

Topics

Beauty Mystery

By Tom Alford

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Benjamin Franklin

Success

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahann

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.

Harold Coffin, "The San Francisc

Government

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any con

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Fear

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate suc

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Nature

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

Truth Humor Funny

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Peace

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Fear

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what w

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Education

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to d

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Life

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves yo

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Science

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled v

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

George Bernard Shaw

Government