Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Society
  • Best
  • Value

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Sports

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Certain
  • Scenes

• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Alone

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Party
  • Hurt
  • Tea

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Your dreams are your spirit, your soul, and without them you are dead.

  

  Brom
  • Spirit
  • Dreams
  • Dead

• We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

  

  James Gleick
  • Devil

• You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Trust

• We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sacrifice
  • Fancy
  • Tyrant

• There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon Brando wanted to have a good time.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Tales
  • Marlon Brando
  • Mythic

• Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
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