Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

You don't know a thing about me

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

People who want to know who I am, or my history, put my name into Google.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

Now you know where I got my name.

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.