Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Phyllis Theroux

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Larry Holmes

no way Holmes can win this, Mercer is going to knock him out. Look at those hooks!

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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.