Conducts Define Quotes

#1. My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

Ben Lee

#3. Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Cornelius Plantinga

#4. The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Charles Dudley Warner

#5. Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Frederick The Great

#6. The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead

Warren Adler

#7. If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

Francine Rivers

#8. What we must do is bring nonhuman animals within our sphere of moral concern and cease to treat their lives as expendable for whatever trivial purposes we may have.

Peter Singer

#9. But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

Keli Goff

#11. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Stephen R. Covey

#12. They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it.

Martin Amis