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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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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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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In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.
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I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
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Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
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The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
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I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.
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His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
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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.
