Mystery Word

Famous quotes containing the words mystery and/or word:

“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“The higher a man stands, the more the word “vulgar” becomes unintelligible to him.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)