"No sign, so far, of anything sinisterâ€”but I live in hope."

-- Agatha Christie

#Sinister Quotes

“There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.”
“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.”
“It takes two to destroy a marriage.”
“Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.”
“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

Source : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics
“So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.”
“We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.”

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