Leslie Charteris Quotes

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Leslie Charteris

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• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Why
  • Never
  • German

• I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Look

• You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Afraid

• I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • More
  • Stomach
  • Critic

• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dead
  • Witch
  • Wicked

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Doors
  • Hot

• I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Practice
  • Psychology
  • Craft

• There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Society
  • Practice
  • Doubt

• What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • God
  • Why
  • Woman

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Health
  • Read
  • Doctor

• Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Power
  • Violence

• I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

  

  Oswald Mosley

• 'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good

• Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Drawing

• 'Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God,' I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • True
  • Red

• I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Singing competition

• Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Men
  • Women
  • Simple

• I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

  

  Jessye Norman

• There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

  

  David Foster
  • People
  • Great

• Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

  

  Leslie Charteris