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Names Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to…
- The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
- My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
- You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and…
- There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I…
- You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did…
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker