Ariadne Oliver Quotes

#1. [Pigeons are] rats with wings.

Ken Livingstone

#2. In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

Trofim Lysenko

#3. The ongoing work of individual theologians continues to inform the authoritative doctrine of the people of God.

Beth Felker Jones

#4. You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can ... well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joseph Kosinski

#5. The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

Alan Shepard

#6. Without regard for the wishes of men, any machines or techniques or forms of organization that can economically replace men do replace men. Replacement is not necessarily bad, but to do it without regard for the wishes of men is lawlessness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Cheap people are expensive.

Okisha Jackson

#8. How did you know I was here in town?"
"The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have my sources."
"Right", He nodded, evidently satisfied and picked up his sandwich. "your mother phoned and told you I was on my way here to Cadence.

Jayne Castle

#9. This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

Meghan Daum

#10. Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Barney Frank

#11. Sex was the first dove.

Parker Tyler

#12. How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face!

Alexander Pope

#13. No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.

Victoria Schwab