#mystery

Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?' 'What?' 'A sport!' 'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#romance #marriage

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'" The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#humility #husbandry #land #mystery #food

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#away #begins #community #ends #into

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#give #interviews #know #make #mystery

You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#murder #mystery #ozarks #southern-lit #suspense

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him. ↗

— Stephanie Bond

#mystery #romance #food

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#effectual #i #know #lead #means

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#any #character #gravitate #himself #hooked

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#makes #me #mystery #people

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#creativity #crime #critic #criticism #detectives