Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei
I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook
China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
Gary Cohn
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
Gabriel Basso
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher
I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
Tamron Hall
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Rachael Leigh
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
E. F. Schumacher
When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.
Ani DiFranco
All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)
Neil Peart
Rush
Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.
The Notorious B.I.G.
It’s been twenty years-we didn’t even talk at Kurt's funeral. None of us. And so, twenty years of me getting Yoko-bashed, and Dave bashing, and me bashing and making it worse, all that shit. The legal stuff, the trial. We just buried it. It was really deep. It brings tears to my eyes to even talk about it.
Courtney Love
'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.
David Rakoff
My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.
Lucas Papademos
With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.
Brian McGinn
I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."
Emma Orczy
I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.
Neko Case
I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.
Eric Church
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
Jillian Mayer
The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
Arthur Conan Doyle
