"I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea...."

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Agatha Christie

#Ideas Quotes #Frightening Quotes

“None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.12, Delacorte Press
“Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.”

Source : Song: Don't Slay That Potato, Album: One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters, 1985
“Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.”
“When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.”
“An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.”
“It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.”
“I think all families are creepy in a way.”
“A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.

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