Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston -
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
Karl Pilkington -
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson -
The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee -
No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso -
They should rule who are able to rule best.
Aristotle -
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw -
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
R. C. Sproul -
The thing I want to emphasize is this: We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do. We have certain rules in the league. Here's the cap, here's the numbers, here's what you can spend. So everybody in the league can do what we're doing. It's just that many choose not to.
Joe Gibbs -
There's no rule that everyone has to change.
John Travolta -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James -
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Liu Xiaobo -
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
Oscar Wilde
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
Uwe Boll -
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
George Eliot -
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
Steve Buscemi -
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
Woody Guthrie -
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle