Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Years
  • New York
  • I Love

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Space
  • Thoughts
  • Encouragement

• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Earth
  • Miracle
  • Face

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Period

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Why
  • Famous
  • Doing

• Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Teachers
  • Far
  • Proportion

• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Essence
  • Ingratitude

• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Influence
  • Events
  • Escape

• I'm always focused.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • Focused

• I am good, but not an angel.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Good
  • Angel

• Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the dead. A moment, and then it was over: The diamond blazed up in my eyes, And I saw in the face of my lover A questioning, strange surprise. Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers, That heavy with fragrance bloomed near, But I didn't feel natural for hours; It was odd now, wasn't it, dear? Write soon to your fortunate Clara Who has carried the prize away, And say you'll come on when I marry; I think it will happen in May.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Woman
  • Delusion
  • Tiger cub