Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.
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I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
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The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
