Agatha Kristi Quotes & Sayings

and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them. — Charles Dickens

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years. — Michael Maloney

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can. — Eric Roth

This body is the seat of all good and bad. — Yeshe Tsogyal

He was right to insist. If they put her on a train, — Laura Moriarty

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. — William Hung

It's an odd term, girlfriend, particuarly for grown persons. And in practice an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one's girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage. — Jeff Lindsay

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us. — Jimmy Carter

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past. — Robert B. Cialdini

They got up steam and proceeded calmly to the north - where there seemed to be no people, but only mountains, lakes, reedy snow-filled steppes, and winter gods who played with storms and stars. — Mark Helprin

The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world. — Michael Jackson