Christie Cote Quotes

Life is like reading a book ... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter. ~ Christie Cote

I was about to sit down when Kyle's hand wrapped around my left wrist lightly and pulled up my arm. The suddenness of his touch was startling. I looked at him, confused, and saw fire in his eyes - raw anger I didn't understand. His eyes looked up at me and penetrated mine. ~ Christie Cote

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like. ~ Christie Cote

Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing? ~ Christie Cote

I'm not fragile, I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn't want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me. ~ Christie Cote

There is a flaw to your plan." A sly grin crept onto his face once again. My eyebrow arched at him questioningly.
"I live across the street," he told me; and, without another word, he turned around toward his house and I realized what he meant. I told my problems to a stranger that I would probably see again. ~ Christie Cote

He wasn't kissing me like I was going to break; he was kissing me like he thought he would break without this kiss. ~ Christie Cote

It's so dreadfully easy...killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter…That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous...that. ~ Agatha Christie

Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – " he tapped his egg-shaped head – "this, that functions! ~ Agatha Christie

Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law. ~ Chris Christie

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. ~ Chris Christie

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles. ~ Chris Christie

You won't tell anyone, will you?' began Emily, knowing well that of all openings on earth this one is the most certain to provoke interest and sympathy. ~ Agatha Christie

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. ~ Agatha Christie

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed. ~ Agatha Christie

One can press a man as far as one likes - but with a woman one must not press too far. For a woman has at heart a great desire to speak the truth. How many husbands who have deceived their wives go comfortably to their graves, carrying their secret with them! How many wives who have deceived their husbands wreck their lives by throwing the fact in those same husbands' teeth! They have been pressed too far. In a reckless moment (which they will afterwards regret, bien entendu) they fling safety to the winds and turn at bay, proclaiming the truth with great momentary satisfaction to themselves. ~ Agatha Christie

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. ~ Ha-Joon Chang

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. ~ Agatha Christie

I don't really seek out vegetarian spots ... but mainly, I know how to work a menu no matter where I am. ~ Christie Brinkley

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, is not himself--

Then you suspect him?

No. That is just what I mean. A man whose mind is evil and whose intentions are evil is conscious of that fact and he knows that he must conceal it all costs. He dare not, therefore, afford any unusual behavior. ~ Agatha Christie

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time. ~ Christie Brinkley

He laughs best who laughs at the end. ~ Agatha Christie

But if you are a sufficiently great and important person, it is necessary that you should be spared small annoyances. If a fly settles on your forehead again and again, maddening you by its tickling--what do you do? You endeavour to kill that fly. You have no qualms about it. You are important--the fly is not. You kill the fly and the annoyance ceases. Your action appears to you sane and justifiable. Another reason for killing a fly is if you have a strong passion for hygiene. The fly is a potential source of danger to the community--the fly must go. So works the mind of the mentally deranged criminal. ~ Agatha Christie

Ulick Norman Owen - Una Nancy Owen - each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN! ~ Agatha Christie

By their garbage shall ye know them," Christie yells, like a preacher, a downy preacher. "I swear, by the ridge of tears and by the valour of my ancestors, I say unto you, Morag Gunn, lass, that by their bloody goddamn fucking garbage shall ye christly well know them. ~ Margaret Laurence

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought. ~ Agatha Christie

Scarborough Demolishes Chris Christie ~ Anonymous

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad. ~ Agatha Christie

The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world. ~ Agatha Christie

A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing. ~ Agatha Christie

A critical faculty is a terrible thing. When I was eleven there were no bad films, just films I didn't want to see, there was no bad food, just Brussels sprouts and cabbage, and there were no bad books - everything I read was great. Then suddenly, I woke up in the morning and all that had changed. How could my sister not hear that David Cassidy was not in the same class as Black Sabbath? Why on EARTH would my English teacher think that 'The History of Mr Polly' was better than 'Ten Little Indians' by Agatha Christie? And from that moment on, enjoyment has been a much more elusive quality. ~ Nick Hornby

I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway. ~ Agatha Christie

Sometimes even if you think something is wrong, it must be done. ~ Christie Watson

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action. ~ Agatha Christie

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. ~ M. Night Shyamalan

The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning. ~ Agatha Christie

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it. ~ Christie Hefner

Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him. ~ Agatha Christie

In some ways I really think that men are beasts. ~ Agatha Christie

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. ~ Agatha Christie

shape about the size of a large dog hovering a few yards over his head. ~ Christie Golden

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. ~ Agatha Christie

Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it. ~ Agatha Christie

If you've lost, you've lost. ~ Agatha Christie

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them. ~ Agatha Christie

the elephant can remember. ~ Agatha Christie

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time? ~ Agatha Christie

Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling stomachs. But they might let a few scraps of sunlight fall into some lean, desolate lives. And that's something.

'The Greatest Library of Estevan, Saskatchewan ~ Michael Christie

He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words. ~ Agatha Christie

If you asked me what my dream would be - obviously, 'NCIS' is a dream to me - I'd like to be on a period show. ~ Cote De Pablo

Mon ami, let this be a lesson to you. You are a man. Behave, then, like a man! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you! ~ Agatha Christie

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs. ~ Christie Laing

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy. ~ Agatha Christie

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous. ~ Agatha Christie

To every problem, there is a most simple solution. ~ Agatha Christie