Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Sin

• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Record
  • Boring

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Record
  • Executive

• Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Record
  • Bully
  • Historically

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• We have such a loyal following in London that we decided to open a shop, and I find Albemarle Street extremely charming and special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Find
  • Special
  • London

• I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • London
  • Fast
  • Brazil

• If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • You
  • London

• My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Favorite

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Real
  • Achievement
  • London

• I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

  

  Sam Smith
  • See
  • Old
  • London

• Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • London
  • Jews

• Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Record
  • Novel

• If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Company
  • Record
  • Product

• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Age
  • Reading

• I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

  

  Adele
  • Real
  • Write
  • Record

• For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Service
  • Luxury

• It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sin
  • Record
  • London