No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Quotes

#1. Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#3. When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary.

Jill Scott

#4. Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

David Oyelowo

#5. Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

Andre Maurois

#6. Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#7. It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

Steven Gerrard

#8. Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#9. This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#10. Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Shania Twain

#11. Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

Fisher Ames

#12. The streets was basically my parents.

Bernard Hopkins

#13. Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

Dorothy Draper

#14. I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences ... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#15. Feel The Love in Friendship

Chiranjit Paul

#16. Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth.

Jeremy Camp

#17. This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Xenophanes