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

• America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • Country
  • America
  • Way

• 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

• 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

• If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Today
  • Government
  • Ifs

• 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.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Fall
  • Desert
  • Wilderness

• Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mirror
  • Shadow
  • Chair

• I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Sound
  • Cigarette
  • Load

• 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