Agatha Christie Quotes
'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
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The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.
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'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'
