Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

Denis Diderot

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Hebrew Proverb

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two

Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Jason Williams

My influences are Priest Holmes and Walter Payton,

Laurie R. King

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

Arthur Conan Doyle

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

Arthur Conan Doyle

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Mike Winters

Like any companion animal, it's a life-long commitment. It's not just something for the various holiday seasons.

Gary Hume

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

Friedrich Muller

If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

George Eliot

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Daphne Ashbrook

I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann's Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took the part, I'd never even heard of 'Doctor Who.' No one warned me that the kisses would be a big deal.

Bradley Chicho

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

David Whyte

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Pat Moore

We got the dog from Canine Companions for Independence.