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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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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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.
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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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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.
