Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Mistake
• Mystery
• Strangeness

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • See
  • Anything
  • Would

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Believe
  • Starting

• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fashion

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Experience

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
  • Very
  • Eating

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Like
  • Religious

• It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • Job
  • Dog

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Care
  • Mistake
  • Chance

• Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

  

  Caroline Knapp

• The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Men
  • Memories

• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Mistake
  • Mystery
  • Strangeness