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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes


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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes
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HA-JOON CHANG When having Problem You Smile. It wont lessened Your Problem But Give You Courage To face It!
RAMEESHA SHEIKH It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great f...
FRANCIS WHEEN Good morning," said the little prince.

Good morning," said the merchant.

This ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I ...
GLENN QUINN As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman shoul...
JOHN DARNIELLE If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if ...
WOODROW T. WILSON Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Imagine you had a plumber in your house to fix a broken pipe three years later he'd still fixing tha...
AARON GLANTZ I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If you don't believe in 5 seconds then you wont in 5 minutes.
TABISH AHMED SHAH Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...
JOHN HODGMAN Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I'm so pleased with this. It is totally unexpected for me coming after the injury. The ligament prob...
MICHAEL WALCHHOFER It was a little problem at the beginning. I felt it in the first couple of minutes. It took me a whi...
JUAN DIAZ My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two mi...
CAITLIN MORAN Technology is faster, better, cheaper. You can see a problem and solve it within minutes.
BOB BOUFFORD He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagi...
JULIAN BARNES What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL The problem with showers and thunderstorms is that you can drop quite a bit of precipitation in a sh...
ELIZABETH MORSE But it is a pipe."
"No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representation...
JOHN GREEN The point is,” Caine continued, “you and I share something in common, Sam. We were born just thr...
MICHAEL GRANT Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept o...
JAMES T. KIRK It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.
JOHNNY DEPP It seemed like we quit for a three-minute stretch. Quit might be too strong. We seemed to be stunned...
MIKE POINDEXTER You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directin...
JEAN-LUC GODARD The figures speak for themselves. If African-Americans are three times more likely to receive a high...
CHRIS LEONARD I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five min...
LOU THESZ Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three...
WILL SELF If you let me troll you today, i gladly wont troll you tuesday!
STEVEN REYNAGA I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five min...
LOU THESZ Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS You may have been broken before and hurt and cheated,but please know this I'm here now,I'm here to f...
NICKOLI LEE ALLEN D'AVANZO you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would-
i heard that!
gandal...
MARGARET WEIS I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. B...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' wo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reaso...
GRAHAM MOORE In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of g...
GRAHAM MOORE If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to bo...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.
RICK NIELSEN We've handled that problem. Anthony and I talked between ourselves for 45 minutes without any coache...
ANTHONY DAVIS The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruse...
DUNCAN SHEIK He pulls out the pipe I stole and sticks it between his teeth.
“What do you think?” he asks...
JESSICA KHOURY Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I sw...
JACQUELINE CAREY A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Doyle: "What is it now, then?"
Cordelia: "Isn't java supposed to be a coffee?"
Doyle: "Rea...
JOHN PASSARELLA Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a ...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call m...
RICHARD HOOKER You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.
GREG ADKINS Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
WALT WHITMAN YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - ...
CAMERON DALLAS We may see Beaumont and Port Arthur underwater for three, four, five or even seven days.
STEVE MCCRAW He's not quite there yet. There's no hidden agenda, none of that. ... He's got a little tightness an...
WAYNE KRIVSKY My Hopes are so High that your Kiss might Kill me So wont you Kill me So I die Happy.
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
OSCAR WILDE I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From...
JIM BOLGER You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I ador...
OSCAR WILDE I beg to submit that it is the first.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I beg to God for it to become a reality,
DIEGO MARADONA At fifty times the distance, you dispatched that ko-bold with three arrows to the neck. I’ve earne...
KRESLEY COLE I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
DANNY BOYLE You've got quite a good voice, the problem I have is this looks to me like 10 years ago.
SIMON COWELL Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And...
WALT WHITMAN Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to ...
NIKKI ROWE You know guys like me and Fuzzy (Zoeller), you spend three hours on the range out here, but you know...
CRAIG STADLER You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ My life is so empty, that even death doesn't wont to take me!
JOHN ZEA If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was afraid I was wrong, that you would change your mind any second. I’ve been looking for a suit...
KIERA CASS The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to unders...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH I was at the Academy of Country Music Awards and my first record had just come out. Buck Owens walke...
KENNY CHESNEY I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
HARLAN HOWARD It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas...
MAREN MORRIS I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I need attorneys to speak with that have a few minutes to look and discuss my case. I have my saving...
ASA MEEK Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there ar...
OSCAR WILDE If you think it's tense, imagine walking in here and being told you have a problem and eight minutes...
BRIAN MONTGOMERY I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that ...
SEAN COMBS Success is yours, and what is yours you don’t beg for it, you don’t kneel down for it. You just ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use ...
WALTER MURCH I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridic...
LIBBA BRAY Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that lov...
CHRIS DEE Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
MARGARET LAURENCE I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with...
SALLY GREEN Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Walking the dog is not exercise. You have to sweat for 30 minutes a day. It's no longer three times ...
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A fool always finds a greater fool to ad...
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He walked past the couch to the open window and held up t...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To begin at the beginning.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we we...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The pub...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,” said he. “I am.” “I ought to make you si...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am inclined to think--” said I. “I should do so,” Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I be...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is easy to be wise after the event.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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