Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Mother

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Experience

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Public
  • Educate

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Intellectual
  • Follow

• There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Special

• The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Morning
  • Start
  • Coffee

• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Dog

• I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Man
  • Sexy

• It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
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