Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• I have never played a game in my life.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Game
  • Games

• I am personally committed to creating a chief information officer in government to coordinate our efforts.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Government
  • Information
  • Committed

• I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Play
  • Stills

• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Game
  • Single
  • Professional

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Leave
  • Don't Talk
  • So Much

• Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Strong
  • Financial
  • Weed

• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  

  George Clooney
  • Looks
  • Humans
  • Stills

• It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • People
  • Definitely
  • Brains

• It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Position
  • Get
  • Long Time

• There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

  

  G. Tyler Miller
  • Science
  • Food
  • Die

• In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Instinct
  • Nameless