Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

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• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

  

  Halsey
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• After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • People
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  • War

• The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

  

  David Icke
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• Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

  

  Kylie Minogue
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• What David is, is a very, very good route runner, ... He's showed that he's got patience. He's got really good hints, which normally means you're a real good route runner, when you can go in there and just have a natural way of selling something. All it is is a little hint, but you see the defender take a big bite off of it. He's got real good instincts that way, and he's been around a long time and is just one of the hardest-working, high-quality guys you want to be around.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
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• I'd rather die than fade away

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Die
  • Dies
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• Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

  

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• I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

  

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• I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Like
  • Talking

• Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Nature
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  • Geometry

• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Company
  • Solitude

• Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
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• For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
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  • Manufacturing

• Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.

  

  Agnes Moorehead
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• We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Ships
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• Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
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  • Swimmer
  • Octopus