Agatha Christie Quotes

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us