A Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Arthur Conan Doyle
British - Writer
May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

Marcus Aurelius

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

Kevin Powers

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

Alberto Manguel

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Susan Howatch

Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life, and her achievements will prove an inspiration to readers around the world.

Sonny Mehta

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Jeffrey Kluger

It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.

Flora Thompson

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

David Wilkerson

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

F. Sionil Jose

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

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'Above The Thunder' is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.

Tony Ardizzone

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

John Campbell Shairp

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

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