Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Origen -
I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin -
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu -
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle -
The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
Dan Byrd -
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer -
Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
Laura Anne Gilman -
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Camille Paglia -
Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...
Randall Jarrell -
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes -
Honour is the mysticism of legality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
Jamelia
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My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses.
Katherine Dunn -
Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
Dalai Lama -
Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!
Jonathan Van Ness -
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
Nathan Fillion -
There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
Barry Jenkins -
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
Arthur Conan Doyle