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.
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Quotes Of Agatha Christie
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds
and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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.
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
1952 Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opened in London. Still playing to audiences today, it holds the record for the longest continuous run of any show in the world.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
~Agatha Christie
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