Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

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• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Years

• Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Science
  • Black

• As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Family

• Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • King

• If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Technology

• I was born gay, just as I was born black.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Black
  • Gay

• I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Country
  • Honor

• Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Rock
  • Confidence
  • Depression

• Crazy diets, good diets, you can't name one I didn't do.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Good
  • Crazy

• A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

  

  James Longstreet
  • City
  • Fire

• I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Up
  • Long

• I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Dance

• We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Football

• Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • Strong

• Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Lies
  • Calm
  • Movement

• I am always open to when someone says, 'Let's do it this way.'

  

  Vicky Krieps

• Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

  

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