Agatha Christie Quotes

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

I look like a child - and I love it!

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?