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. -
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
Mads Mikkelsen -
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 -
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Muhammad Ali -
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
Pablo Picasso -
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
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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 -
If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.
Seth Godin -
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
Jonathan Frid -
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
Paul Gauguin -
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 -
I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.
Paul Merton
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
E. W. Howe -
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
Andreas Gursky -
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
Al Pacino -
I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Jack Roy -
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