Sylvius Quotes

#1. Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

Shane West

#3. Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.

Melissa Rosenberg

#4. And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Ben Stein

#5. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

#6. It was made from the black lotus, whose blossoms wave in the lost jungles of Khitai, where only the yellow-skulled priests of Yun dwell. Those blossoms strike dead any who smell of them.

Robert E. Howard

#7. It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.

Christoph Waltz

#8. But the dull and stupid masses will continue in their sluggish bustle.

Jehan Sylvius

#9. Papa, it's too expesive.'
' That's for me to worry about.

Anthony Doerr

#10. When you accomplish a goal, don't cross it out. Instead, write 'victory' next to it and move on to the next one. This way, whenever you have a bad day, all you have to do is to review your victories to feel good about yourself.

Jack Canfield

#11. For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

Lee Myung-bak

#12. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

#14. The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

Joe Walsh

#15. I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Henry Rollins