Agatha Christie Quotes

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Agatha Christie

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Country
  • Experience

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Big

• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Know
  • Explain

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Religious

• I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Women

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Strong
  • Church

• I have no television - I hate it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Hate
  • Television

• Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Nobody
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Art
  • Attention

• I read a lot of detective novels.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Read
  • Novels
  • Detective

• I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz

• Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Stationary

• Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.

  

  Yanni
  • Together
  • Giving
  • Emotional

• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Respect
  • Laws
  • Watch

• Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

  

  Agatha Christie