Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Agatha Christie

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Agatha Christie

I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

Agatha Christie

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

Agatha Christie

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

Agatha Christie

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Adrienne Clarkson

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrien Brody

Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.

Adriana Lima

Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

Adrian Peterson

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

Adriana Trigiani

Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

Adriana Trigiani

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.

Adrian Rogers

God does business with those who mean business.

Timur Bekmambetov

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

Tony Kaye

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Bob Newhart

I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.

When a ride stops, it really means that our safety systems are working.

Javier Solana

Nothing, and I mean nothing, will be obtained by violent means. It is a mistake to negotiate with the terrorists and we do not recommend it.

Right now it's subsided, but it doesn't mean there won't be someone to try to stir the pot.

Reunions are great. But that doesn't mean you can or should re-create the old WABC today.

Doc Rivers

Ricky is probably our second-best player on the team, but that doesn't mean he starts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.

Personal stats mean nothing. I'm playing for Super Bowls. Anything short of that now is meaningless.

Personally, I think we'll be pretty good. I think we're a defensive, stopping team, I think we'll score more points than a lot of people think that we will, but I mean I think we'll be pretty good.

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

On one level, the Hollywood-like romance is tongue-in-cheek. But on the other level, it means serious business.

Steve Almond

I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle.

Cindy Sheehan

Mr. President, you mean you're willing to kill more Americans because you've killed so many already?

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

Terrence McNally

My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I sort of know where everything is. It doesn't mean I do everything right, but I know where everything is. Here, I'm very much a visitor. New York is my turf and I'm used to working with my actors.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've 'ad 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!!

No one really works together and I don't think that people mean to be that way, they just don't really know what's going on.