Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
Quotes to Explore
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.
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We frequently fall into error and folly, Dr. Johnson tells us, 'not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered.' To compress, therefore, the great and obvious rules of life into brief sentences which are not easily forgotten is, as he said, to confer a real benefit upon us.
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The little smiling cottage! where at eve He meets his rosy children at the door, Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife, With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent To cheer his hunger after labor hard.
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
