#myster

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arms #being #being human #dance #dancing

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#i #i think #i write #me #mysterious

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#between #ceremony #connected #hand #holy

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#easier #gene #knew #knowing #made

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#because #dance #dancers #just #just because

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#france #historical-ficiton #mystery #romance #victorian

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." (Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mysteries #solution #technique #writing #writing-craft

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes