Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Rita Rudner

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

Rita Rudner

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Publius Tacitus

There will be vice as long as there are men

Ray Walston

I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Cate Blanchett

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

Michael Ignatieff

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.