“What alchemy there was in human beings.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“He did not know- he simply did not know.
But he felt he ought to know.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration…just letting them drift gently past.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God’s mark upon my brow?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death".”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“What made Lady Angkatell dangerous, he thought, was the fact that those intuitive, wild guesses of hers might be often right. With a careless (seemingly careless?) word she built up a picture - and if parts of the picture was right, wouldn't you, in spite of yourself, believe in the other half of the picture?...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“love.” Poirot put his hand gently on her shoulder. He said: “But you are one of those who can live with a sword in their hearts—who can go on and smile—” Henrietta looked up at him. Her lips twisted into a bitter smile. “That’s a little melodramatic,”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
“Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God’s mark upon my brow?’ Did”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Hollow
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“It's the bad place I always come back to in my dreams.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creativity and the springs of motivation. So”
― Trevanian, quote from The Summer of Katya
“We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.”
― George Carlin, quote from Last Words
“The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according
to which nation. French has no word for home,
and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people
in northern India is dying out because their ancient
tongue has no words for endearment. I dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can. Maybe the Etruscan texts would
finally explain why the couples on their tombs
are smiling. And maybe not. When the thousands
of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated,
they seemed to be business records. But what if they
are poems or psalms? My joy is the same as twelve
Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light.
O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper,
as grand as ripe barley lithe under the wind's labor.
Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts
of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred
pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what
my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this
desire in the dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script
is not language but a map. What we feel most has
no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.”
― Jack Gilbert, quote from The Great Fires
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