Quotes

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.” Agatha Christie

“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie

“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.” Agatha Christie

“The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.” Agatha Christie

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.” Agatha Christie

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.” Agatha Christie

“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.” Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” Agatha Christie

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” Agatha Christie

“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.” Agatha Christie

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.” Agatha Christie

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.” Agatha Christie

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” Agatha Christie

“I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.” Agatha Christie

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.” Agatha Christie

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.” Agatha Christie

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” Sir Arthur Clarke

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Agatha Christie

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.” Agatha Christie

“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” Agatha Christie

“These little grey cells. It is up to them.” Agatha Christie

“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.” Agatha Christie

“Very few of us are what we seem.” Agatha Christie