Mark Billingham Quotes

It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

Mark Billingham

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GreatFeelKnowNeverSheGet

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

Joe Bonamassa

MusicDoingSayBecauseGetJust

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

Jess Glynne

FriendHeroBestSchoolMeSong

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.

John Harvey Kellogg

ManMeTreatThoughtHelpWay

There's a particular kind of single woman whose relationship with her dog has a level of intensity and affection that may be both the cause and the result of her singleness. For a long time, I was that woman.

Meghan Daum

DogRelationshipTimeWomanResult

America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.

John McCain

PeopleAmericaChooseHumanCultures

My greatest personal Survivor Series moment was facing The Rock in 1998 and having Mr. McMahon turn on me. That set into motion one of the best series of matches I've ever had and some of the most important with The Rock. Not only did we have great matches, but then we became teamed up following the rivalry, so that was big.

Mick Foley

GreatMomentBestMeRockPersonal

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Joseph Brodsky

WordsSocietyPotentialListenOwn

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Dorothy L. Sayers

LoveGodTrue LoveExperiencePeople

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

Asghar Farhadi

FightingIllusionBornWantWhy

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

Allen Iverson

HeartMeBelieveNeedGotJust

After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

Shaun Alexander

PeopleThinkYouSmokeKnowSay

I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.

Scott Kelly

TimeBuildingThinkLongRoutine

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