English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what..."

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know

Arthur Conan Doyle

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. Henry Miller
Robert Baden-Powell quote: "The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol..."
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. Robert Baden-Powell
Sparky Anderson quote: "My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and..."
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work. Sparky Anderson
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes. Maya Angelou
John Belushi quote: "I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time."
I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. John Belushi
I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on. Tommy Hilfiger
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. J. D. Salinger
Eddie Bernice Johnson quote: "I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."
I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing. Eddie Bernice Johnson
Thomas Pynchon quote: "True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals."
True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals. Thomas Pynchon
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake. Jonathan Edwards
I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and... Elizabeth Gilbert
Walker Percy quote: "School - You can get all A's and still flunk life."
School - You can get all A's and still flunk life. Walker Percy
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "Don't hate, it's to big a burden to bear."
Don't hate, it's to big a burden to bear. Martin Luther King jr.
Oscar Wilde quote: "They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to..."
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. Oscar Wilde
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utte? they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Sylvia Plath