Sophie Hannah Quotes

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1971

Topics

BodyFindKindStrangeNeverShe

I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

Andy Behrman

ThinkBetterGoKindFraudBigger

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

John Shelton Reed

YouKnowWhyMeanWriteBoundaries

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Amber Benson

KnowMythologyGeekAboutMarc

I think I'm teaching my teammates that they can still be successful while having fun and enjoying the moment rather than being a stone cold brick.

Simone Biles

MomentFunHaving FunColdThink

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

Martin O'Malley

BankEconomyWithoutFailBigWell

A lot of 'Shonen Jump' anime, you see a lot of battles, a lot of aggression, and it's very relatable to players. There's a hero, and he has to go through a lot of rough training, put his body through the unthinkable so that he can save the world or do his task. His or her challenge is saving the world; our challenge is winning the game.

Mike Daniels

HeroChallengeTrainingWorldGame

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Apolo Ohno

WinterCarBlackDrivingIceTrials

I hate seeing it; I hate watching it. More importantly, I hate people that don't understand the environment - how small Ferguson is, how it's really a sense of community, and, you know, it's a good place. We shouldn't have been looting and rioting, tearing up our own city.

Tyron Woodley

GoodCommunityHatePeopleCityYou

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Nick Woodman

BelieveI CanAnythingHorribleSell

I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.

Mark Goulston

ExperienceMeFlyLookingRemember

My passion's always been about helping the youth, and this is no different, except the issue are 21, 22, 23 years old and maybe even older than that, but they're very young in MMA World.

Ken Shamrock

PassionYouthWorldYoungOldYears

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

Kevin Dillon

BrotherKindOverThingsHeReally

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