Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have taken to living by my wits.

Arthur Conan Doyle

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Argus Hamilton

The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.

Argus Hamilton

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

Aretha Franklin

Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

Aretha Franklin

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Aretha Franklin

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Aretha Franklin

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

Aravind Adiga

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

Aravind Adiga

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

Archibald MacLeish

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Antoine Predock

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Anthony Zinni

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.

Anthony Zinni

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

Anthony Shadid

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think …

Ben Nicholas

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.

Ben Mendelsohn

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Ben Mendelsohn

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

Ben Mendelsohn

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

Ben Quayle

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Ben Nicholson

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Ben Nicholson

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.