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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• : I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.

  

  Larry Wall

• Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.

  

  Colum McCann

• I was discovered on YouTube and I think I was detrimental to my own career.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Career

• If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Community
  • Cool

• Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • She
  • Caring

• I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Time
  • Together
  • Help

• I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband's permission to make wine.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Law

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• 'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Young

• 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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