Agatha Christie Quotes

'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'

Agatha Christie

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

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• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

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• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

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• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

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• I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

  

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
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• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

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• We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

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• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

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• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

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• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  

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• When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.

  

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• We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

  

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• I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

  

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• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

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• I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Time
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• It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news 'Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut.' On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.

  

  Bruce Perens
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• My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

  

  Jaime Ray Newman
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• A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

  

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• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  

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• 'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Police