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"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''

He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: writing
16 people liked it

"No. Never give up. Even in the face of Armageddon."
— --Rorschach, Watchmen, Alan Moore

tags: alan, moore, rorschach, watchmen
20 people liked it

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

(Who watches the watchmen?)"
— Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal's Satires - With The Satires Of Persius)

12 people liked it

"Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone.

Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion.

There is nothing else.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long.

No meaning save what we choose to impose.

This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs.

It’s us.

Only us."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

5 people liked it

"There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

7 people liked it

"In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

6 people liked it

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

21 people liked it

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

23 people liked it

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8 people liked it

"if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories)

7 people liked it

""Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

9 people liked it

"You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

2 people liked it

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

5 people liked it

"What one man can invent, another can discover."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: blue, carbuncle
9 people liked it

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

tags: crime
2 people liked it

""Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
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— - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

19 people liked it

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

4 people liked it

"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

8 people liked it

""By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

"Because I looked for it.""
— Arthur Conan Doyle

3 people liked it

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor
7 people liked it

"Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Valley of Fear)

9 people liked it

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

tags: evidence
17 people liked it

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: inspirational
217 people liked it

"The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: fiction, humor, love
134 people liked it

"Westley (as he is unsuccessfully fighting Fezzik): Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?

Fezzik: I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
139 people liked it

""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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— Inego Montoya [via William Goldman, S. Morganstern]

3 people liked it

"When I was your age, television was called books."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: book, fantasy, humour
107 people liked it

"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound."
— William Goldman

19 people liked it

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life
228 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
632 people liked it

"As you wish."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: love, movie, westley
122 people liked it

"Give us the gate key."
"I have no gate key."
"Fezzik, rip his arms off."
"Oh, you mean this gate key!"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie, violence
67 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
639 people liked it

"We are men of action. Lies do not become us."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: action, honor, lies, movie
88 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
2,219 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,706 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,899 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,314 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,414 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,997 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,842 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,715 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,023 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,458 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
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"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,122 people liked it