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
  • Father

• 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

• The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Value
  • Lies
  • Attains

• The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

  

  Sarah Monette
  • Youth
  • Fountain

• You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kill
  • Here
  • Rock N Roll

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • House
  • Way

• 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