Agatha Christie Quotes

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Crazy
  • Never
  • Too Much

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Generation

• My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Try

• When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Project
  • Directing

• There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Music
  • Commitment
  • Marketing

• Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

  

  Victor Webster
  • World
  • Real
  • Television

• The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Live

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• 'Summon up a supper,' he said. 'Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• ‘But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson

• I proved for a long time how much I've given of my heart and of my time to the UFC.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Great
  • American

• I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Justice

• Must I tell the story of my life again?

  

  John Garfield
  • Life

• What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Help
  • Light

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie