All Quotes

"After Ernesto De Martino, Carlo Tullio-Altan, who passed away yesterday at the age of 89, was the greatest Italian anthropologist in two senses: as a significant exponent of cultural anthropology, a discipline so little cultivated in Italy, and as a ruthless investigator of the anthropology of Italians."

"Reason ‘knows’ what it says, while faith ‘believes’ in what it says. And since I do not “believe” that two plus two equals four because I ‘know’ it, there is no relationship between faith and reason, nor any hierarchical subordination, as claimed by men of faith who place their beliefs above their knowledge. In fact, I cannot ‘believe’ in what I ‘know’, and I cannot “know” if what I ‘believe’ is true. In reality, the area of faith shrinks as knowledge advances. Once, as Hippocrates reminds us, epilepsy was called the ‘sacred disease’; today, no doctor or patient would think of attributing the origin of this disease to God or the gods. :*From “”Faith as a remedy for senselessness“”, “'repubblica.it”', November 2006."

"Maggie Smith — Daphne Castle"

"Roddy McDowall — Rex Brewster"

"Sylvia Miles — Myra Gardener"

"James Mason — Odell Gardener"

"Denis Quilley — Kenneth Marshall"

"Diana Rigg — Arlena Stuart Marshall"

"Richard Vernon — Mr. Flewitt"

"Jane Birkin — Christine Redfern"

"Nicholas Clay — Patrick Redfern"

"It is not me that is hiding, it is you who are lying!"

"Yes, I have been swimming! There's nothing like the shock of cold water and rhythmic movement to stimulate the little grey cells."

"I myself timed the journey. But then I was not running like a young gazelle, for obvious reasons."

"Madame, there is nothing like a good night's rest to clear the little grey cells. Kindly ask all our friends to foregather in the lounge after they have finished their petit dejeuner, when all will be revealed."

"Mesdames, Mademoiselle, Messieurs — the reason I asked you to meet me here this morning — please, Monsieur — is that I, Hercule Poirot, have discovered the identity of the murderer of Madame Marshall. This need surprise no one. Are you all comfortable? Even the murderer?"

"A picture of innocence."

"You see, it is folly to try and trick Hercule Poirot... even in a dead language."

"Dear Monsieur Poirot, a word in your ear. The whole world knows that you are a man of enormous discretion and gallantry, a man not only privy to the secrets of kings and prime ministers, but also a man who would never willingly stand by and see a lady in trouble without rushing to her aid. I appeal to you now, as just such a frail woman, in need of help. In fact I throw myself on your mercy. Couldn't we make this a private investigation? You know how peculiar people can be about a spot of murder."

"Arlena and I were in the chorus of a show together, not that I could ever compete. Even in those days, she could always throw her legs up in the air higher than any of us... and wider."

"Look, I was wrong about cherchez la femme. Sorry about that, but it's quite obviously cherchez le fruit. Rex, see, is the only one unaccounted for."

"If I can't see you faces shining in every knife, fork and spoon, I'll have your guts for garters! Understood?"

"Have you ever met a Tyranian doctor, Monsieur Poirot? The limit of their skill is determining the fitness of an ox to pull a cart."

"Monsieur Poirot, you have the French obsession — I'm sorry, Belgian obsession — with crime passionnel. But you're barking up the wrong tree."

"Don't believe all that about her being too weedy. Women fight like tigers when losing their husbands. Not that I've had much experience at that sort of thing myself."

"Thank you for those three hours of sheer, and unadulterated hell! This may come as a nasty surprise to you but shock absorbers have been standardized equipment on motorized vehicles for thirty years!"

"Linda, do stop standing there like a coughdrop and say good morning to Monsieur Poirot!"

"If it's fun you're looking for, darling, go play with the jellyfish."

"She runs like a dromedary with dropsy."

"If that's Arlena, she must be being dressed by Woolworths these days."

"I could just kill that cow!"

"Evil is Everywhere. Even in Paradise."

"Have a good time, my dear Poirot..."

"Holidays can be murder."

"While vacationing in the Greek Isles, famous detective Hercule Poirot spotted a beautiful woman on the beach. Realizing that she was dead, he did not ask her out to dinner."

"Peter Ustinov — Hercule Poirot"

"It wasn't his fault.. It was an accident! What is destined to happen happens! If God placed it on our path, there has to be a reason."

"Two or three weeks after your arrest, I too was arrested. On the same charges as everyone else : collusion, conspiracy and propaganda against the regime."

"There's an ATM over there. But two hundred tomans is the most you can withdraw."

"They hanged me by my feet! I didn't see the sun for three months. I could no longer tell day from night. And now you feel sorry for them? People like you think they're the Gandhis and Mandelas, and they see us as the Hitlers and Mussolinis. You don't get it. If this guy survives, he won't spare us. Don't you realize that?!"

"Thing about breaking a horse is don't run him out of time, 'cause if you're gonna just keep on running your horse, you're gonna break his spirit. Anything that runs wild got something bad in him. You want to leave some of that in there, 'cause they need it to survive out here."

"Remember, you gotta always protect yourself. Remember if somebody small, your size, you can probably beat 'em up or whatever, but if it's somebody bigger than you, then I don't know what you're gonna do, you'd better run."

"Where we live, the Plains, the Badlands, things usually look the same. People are always related. They got the same old worries all the time. It gets really hot sometimes. You get tired of it, but... there's just things you always gotta do. [...] It's always a hard place to leave. 'Cause that's all you got growing up. My sister Jashaun, she's got a thing about this place. She sees things I don't. She's a good one. Whenever the storms are comin', the old timers would teach us to watch the cloud. And when the wind is too strong, we all know to lean into it so it don't blow us away."

"John Reddy as Johnny Winters"

"Jashaun St. John as Jashaun Winters"

"Travis Lone Hill as Travis"

"Taysha Fuller as Aurelia Clifford"

"Irene Bedard as Lisa Winters"

"Allen Reddy as Bill"

"Harry Belafonte - himself"