Cosy Mystery Quotes & Sayings

I love the short-haired lifestyle. — Anne Hathaway

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service. — Lucy Liu

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested. — Fulton J. Sheen

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology. — August Wilson

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct. — William H. Macy

Feed them as is hungry, clothe them as is naked, and speak up for them as has no voices'? Well, — Terry Pratchett

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting. — Justine Larbalestier

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand. — Reggie Jackson

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. — Napoleon Hill

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below. — Brian Cox

They can beat you down, not keep you down. — William Terry Rutherford

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast. — Celia Conrad

I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn't feeling particularly reverent about my mother's deadness, or about the vicar, but I do despise that ghastly, 'You've got to laugh, haven't you?' approach to religious occasions. As a young man, I often goaded my believing friends with crudely logical questions about God. But as the years have passed, I have found myself hankering more and more for a little cosy voodoo in my life. Increasingly, I regard my atheism as a regrettable limitation. It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather, a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mystery: a species, in fact, of neurosis. There is no chance of my being converted, of course - it is far too late for that. But I wish it wasn't. — Zoe Heller

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won. — Aristotle.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given. — Colin Gunton

What's up Brandon?" "She's fine and you're dead." ********* — D. Camille