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“No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .”

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Conan O'Brien, born on April 18, 1963, is a renowned talk show host from the United States. Known for his unique sense of humor and engaging interaction with audiences, he has hosted several popular talk show programs. more

“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”

Knows May Ends Whole Accepting Know How Our Lives Streets Wind Mere Currents Conviction Determined Agents Definite Invitations Rejecting Free Agents

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.”

Thinking May Eye Three Principles All Things Bounds Inches Beetles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.”

Way Evil Hours Dark Son My Son Providence Caution Crossings Exalted Moors Dark Hours

Book:The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”

People Men Looks Heart Young Waiting Too Much Hundred Murder Clouds Terror Dawn Young Man Valleys Dusk Chimneys Valley Of Death

Book:The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.”

Should Joy Sorrow Hunger Intense Novelists Abstinence Great Joy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.”

Thinking Should Said Impatience Holmes

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“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 say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.”

Made Turns Waiting Darkness Wind Rivers Bounds Calm Tides Flood Sail Anchors

Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

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