Paddy Doyle Quotes

There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever. ~ James Kelman

You see, but you do not observe. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram ... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history ... and then he was promptly ... simply ... forgotten to death. ~ Paddy Chayefsky

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything that I don't have to. I want to travel light. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?" "What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?" "For my education, Holmes." "Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last. This is an instructive case. There ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! ~ Paddy Chayefsky

What I Know: 1. What you don't know, you're not supposed to know yet. 2. More will be revealed. 3 Crisis means to sift. Let it all fall away and you'll be left with what matters. 4.What matters most cannot be taken away. 5. Just do the next right thing one thing at a time. That'll take you all the way home. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I decide to take the risk on this family. Not because I won't get hurt, but because they are the right people to get hurt by. ~ Glennon Doyle

Moriarty: ... everything I have to say has already crossed your mind. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy. Life is uncomfortable. So I might as well get busy loving the people around me. I'm going to stop trying so hard to decide whether they are the "right people" for me and just take deep breaths and love my neighbors. I'm going to take care of my friends. I'm going to find peace in the 'burbs. I'm going to quit chasing happiness long enough to notice it smiling right at me. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

Maybe we need to look at them and say 'I see your pain. It's real. I feel it too. We can handle it. We can do hard things. Because we are warriors. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

It is just all the difference between happiness and misery," said Challenger with an abstracted face, still patting his wife's hand. "You can swim with the tide and have peace in mind and soul, or you can thrust against it and be bruised and weary. This business is beyond us, so let us accept it as it stands and say no more. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The tear in my world is getting bigger. Soon it'll blow the whole universe apart. ~ Moira Fowley Doyle

It's a sort of dull unhappiness that comes from isolation & blankness & monotony. It is quite different to the dullness & melancholia at home; I believe people have it sometimes in Kipling & it is, I think, in the air of the country. I went for a walk the other night by the side of the lagoon at sunset; the beauty of it was supreme with the bright green of the paddy fields, the masses of palms, the sky every shade of red & yellow, & the sea every shade of blue; but for all the brilliancy of colour there was a heavy melancholy over it all. ~ Leonard Woolf

It's ok to feel too much and know too little. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

There lies the image of our past and of our future," cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. "Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?" "I ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films. ~ Paddy Considine

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

sister died of the dropsy which had long afflicted her." "That will be for a coroner to decide. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

One right doesn't remedy a thousand wrongs.'

'You should write a book of quotes. ~ Catherine Doyle

Wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear. The ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ~ Sherlock Holmes ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance. ~ Mark Frost

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.
God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen. ~ Libba Bray

Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle