Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • You
  • Lying
  • Lie

• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Self

• You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Sound
  • Horizon

• I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Words
  • Born

• I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Feeling
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Selling

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Good
  • Look
  • Russia

• I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Work
  • Real
  • Day

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Single

• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Great

• I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Thinking
  • Relax
  • Chill

• At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Home
  • Relax

• It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Pretty

• Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Relax
  • Precautions
  • Revolver