Clue Quotes - Page 18

• Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

  Gordon Strachan

  Ideas, Martians, Havens

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• ... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cells, Stay Calm, Details

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.8, Random House

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• The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!

  Neal Shusterman

  School, Mean, Kids

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Darkness, Fallen, Felt

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.383, 谷月社

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• If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ifs

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• You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

  Katy Evans

  Song, Play, Ties

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• I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Loneliness, Opposites

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mystery, Pleasure, Guides

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1045, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.

  Fred Hoyle

  Real, People, Giving

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

  Kevin Spacey

  Couple, Past, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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• What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

  Spike Jonze

  Memories, Views, Years

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• I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

  Miranda Lambert

  Hero, Years, People

  "Miranda Lambert: Women in Country Have to Stick Together". Associated Press Interview, gulfnews.com. April 18, 2015.

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• I never insert myself into situations where I am completely blind or don't have a single clue about what's being discussed. I don't to be an impostor and just helping for the sake of helping. If I am going to help somebody, I want it to be valuable. And if they don't follow my advice, then they are a frigging idiot. I'm joking.

  Charlie Sheen

  Advice, Want, Sake

  "Charlie Sheen On Anger Management". AskMen Interview, au.askmen.com.

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• Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Giving, Healthy, Disease

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• Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

  Sophie Hannah

  Want Something, Ambitious, Rewards

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• And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Perfect Days, Giving, Perfect Life

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.96, Random House

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• Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  World, Happenings

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Play, Giving, Mystery

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• My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

  Richard Avedon

  Reading, Photographer, Surface

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• I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Years, Photographer, I've Learned

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• A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else-if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!

  Bobbi Brown

  Mother, Makeup, College

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• My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

  Michael Caine

  Texas, Next, Accents

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• A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

  Anthony de Mello

  Religious, Taken, Eye

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 134), 1992.

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• And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue. They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. What about the bangs are they shorter?! Are the bangs shorter?! The bangs!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Cutting, Talking, Your Side

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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