Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?Arthur Conan Doyle
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
A. N. Wilson -
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Barbara Steele -
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
M. Stanton Evans -
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
Nat Friedman -
What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
Hannah Marks -
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
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There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
He had delusions of adequacy.
Walter Kerr -
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
Xi Jinping -
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
Aaron Neville -
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
Eddie Murphy
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
Xavier Dolan -
I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.
Narendra Modi -
I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the boy scouts, right?
Donald Trump -
Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
Nicki Minaj -
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
Oswald Chambers -
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Fiona Shaw -
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite -
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
E.W. Jackson -
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
Arthur Conan Doyle