Agatha Christie Quotes

'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Door
  • Walk
  • Citizenship

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Dream

• Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!

  

  Augustus

• That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Fire

• Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • World
  • Lost
  • Space

• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Help

• Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Broken

• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • People
  • Gay
  • Lies

• I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Pretty
  • Travel

• There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Clever

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Black

• As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.

  

  Michael Raymond-James
  • Important
  • Future
  • Audience

• 'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Clever