Sugden's Quotes

#1. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

Agatha Christie

#2. The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.

Gerry Spence

#3. Running is always an exercise in humility.

Kristin Armstrong

#4. We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#5. Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

John L'Heureux

#6. Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Hervey Allen

#7. The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Will Cuppy

#8. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.

A.A. Milne

#9. She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Edith Wharton

#10. Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#11. The sergeant knocked up Mrs Green, who lived at New Cottage, the house immediately to the east of the gateway, but she too had heard no disturbance.

Philip Sugden

#12. He wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks.

Jon McGregor

#13. There is nothing boring about happily ever after.

Melissa Brayden

#14. One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Andre Gide

#15. If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

Mariel Hemingway

#16. The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Benjamin Tucker

#17. If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.

Sri Chinmoy