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.

Agatha Christie

• Previous
• Next

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.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Older

• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Me
  • Court
  • Skeptics

• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Done
  • Many
  • 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Questions

• If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Horse
  • Gun

• I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Good
  • Yoga
  • 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.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Work
  • Career
  • Hurt

• The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Big
  • Whole
  • 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.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Imagine

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• 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.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Feeling
  • Practice
  • Painting

• The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the field. And if I wasn't as versatile as I was, I wouldn't have been as successful in all the different offenses that I was in, in the NFL.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Different
  • You
  • Me

• Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Red

• By the divine providence animals are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Way
  • Animals
  • Providence

• Dress how you're comfortable. Wear the makeup that you're comfortable in - or don't wear it.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Makeup

• In other words, (cultural) exchange is about teasing out points of conflict, among other things. (Cultural) Appropriation suggests a significant amount of self-satisfaction and a desire to show off.

  

  Anna Holmes
  • Conflict
  • Cultural
  • Self-Satisfaction

• Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.

  

  Agatha Christie