Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
Fiona McIntosh
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I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.
Omari Hardwick
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If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
Salman Rushdie
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
Vernon Howard
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
Brian Wilson
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When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
Boris Karloff
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I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.
Mike Tyson
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein
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Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
John Ruskin
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All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.
Carolyn Parkhurst
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Now she is like everyone else.
Charles de Gaulle
