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.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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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.
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What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
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Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
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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.
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I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.
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If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
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I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
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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.
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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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.
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I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don't really know for what reason. Just like loves.=
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The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
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Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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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.
