Quotes About Raymond

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

I regard St. Mary Mead," he said authoritatively, "as a stagnant pool." He looked at us, prepared for resentment at his statement, but somewhat, I think, to his chagrin, no one displayed annoyance. "That is really not a very good simile, dear Raymond," said Miss Marple briskly. "Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

The need of our times is nothing less than the re-Christianization of our churches, according to the gospel alone, in both doctrine and culture, by Christ himself

penalties involved. "The president of the Guild was away in

Aping Mankind is a one-stop shop for anyone who wishes to question the wild and often ludicrous claims that are made on behalf of biologism.

But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might,if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.

I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination

Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law. ( Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel , 1949)

The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.

A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)

It's a sordid life, but I'm used to it.

So I got out my office bottle and took the drink and let my self-respect ride its own race.

I guess you can snap her garter any time you want to, without much of a struggle. But there's one thing you can be sure of—you're a late comer to the show.

he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

my whole career is based on the idea that the formula doesn't matter, the thing that counts is what you do with the formula; that is to say, it is a matter of style.

sight and snapped a switch on his call box. 'Have

He says you make good coffee and you get up kind of late in the mornings and are apt to run to a very bright line of chatter and that we should believe anything you say, provided we can check it by five independent witnesses.

There was my yellow cowhide, well scraped on both sides from being pushed around in the boots of cars.

I put the doped whiskey down where he could reach it, if his hands hadn't been strapped.

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.

on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.