Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • God
  • Mother
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• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect

• What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Thinking
  • Becoming

• Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Music
  • Art
  • Lights

• Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Money
  • Surprise
  • Root

• I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Hated
  • Resilient
  • For a while

• If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Different
  • Play
  • Games

• I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • Company
  • Winter
  • Bartender

• If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

  

  Allison Winn Scotch
  • Choices
  • Victories
  • Losses

• I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Think
  • Problem

• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Painting
  • Description
  • Suggestions

• With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Wrestling
  • Athletes
  • Builder

• Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Long
  • Free
  • Desire

• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

  

  George Washington
  • Universe
  • Firsts
  • Aids

• If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Me
  • Chair

• Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Cigarette
  • Chair
  • Holmes