Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Day
  • Person
  • Alive

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Why
  • Want

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Why

• Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Sun

• Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

  

  Aeschines
  • Truth
  • Strong

• If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

  

  Angus King
  • Guy

• Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Good

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Risk
  • Emotional
  • Vulnerability

• I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.

  

  Mark Frost
  • People
  • Remember

• Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Depression

• I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Devil
  • Hell

• If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Change
  • Stop

• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Mankind

• I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Devil
  • Shoe leather