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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.


Arthur Conan Doyle

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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NIDO QUBEIN The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet.
'Not always,' I countered.
'Yes, alw...
RUTA SEPETYS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO It will work itself out, but patience is something that people need to exercise at this point.
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CHRISTOPHER FOWLER One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
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GARY F EVANS... Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have ...
DULE HILL Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
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ANON. A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
STEVEN BIKO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
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ANDREW RAMSEY But Watson offers a seam option which will give the bowling attack - presuming McGrath, Shane Warne ...
ANDREW RAMSEY Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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LED ZEPPELIN And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE They will redo the whole waterfront in Charlevoix - the sea wall and all the docks will be changed.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.
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'Yes, Holmes?
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KEN LUDWIG I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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M ANSSARY Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To begin at the beginning.
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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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in s...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indee...
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