Agatha Christie Quotes
Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
-
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
-
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
-
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
-
I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
-
I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
-
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
-
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
-
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
-
I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
-
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
-
The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend.
-
Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
-
I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.
-
I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
-
One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
-
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
-
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
-
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
-
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
-
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
-
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
-
Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.
