Top 1200 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

We need to show how we really are and how we really are is that I'm the Dad, that's the Mom, these are the kids. This is how you respect us. It's "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Mam" and "No Mam". We don't see a lot of that on TV, so I just want to give an example and show examples on how a family should be versus how families are portrayed on TV.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.

Merlin was very definitely supposed to be an old man guiding the young Arthur to the throne.

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession.

In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

I met my partner, actor David Elliot, when we were both in the play 'La Ronde' by Arthur Schnitzler.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

Conan O'Brien's the best. I'm glad he's in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote 'Human Giant,' and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He's also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.

For 'Conan,' I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

You've never had a job that you thought was secure. You don't think the Tonight Show is risk free. Especially when you saw what happened with your buddy Conan O'Brien. There is always a Plan B.I am ready to apply to the post office.

After Sir Alex Ferguson, it's been a difficult time for Man United, but actually, many people know that after Sir Alex Ferguson, it would be difficult for Man United.

I always dreamed of playing a night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's a dream come true for me.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

I am a Russell Brand fan. I'm one of the few people who think he did a cracker-jack job in 'Arthur.'

[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the top.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

There are tons of things I'd love to do. I want to do comedy. It's not that I don't want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away. . . . Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing.

I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at the time about Jay and Conan, and I hate doing anything serious.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.