Holmes Quotes - Page 3

• Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorrow, Dear, Antidote

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.871, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Cases, Persons

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.206, GENERAL PRESS

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• Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Pages, Conan

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• You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.

  Jude Law

  Character, Years, Different

  "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Jude Law interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Convenient, Watson, Ifs

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.102, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Years, Known

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• I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kids, Two, Detectives

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• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Pain, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.865, Ageless Reads

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• In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.

  Michael Koryta

  Running, Character, Long

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

  Evander Holyfield

  Boxing, Decision, Ears

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

  Gerry Cooney

  Careers, Champion, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

  Mark Gatiss

  Real, Thinking, Horror Stories

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• Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Drs, May

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• Carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fall, Communication, Thinking

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• We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  People, World, Global Warming

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• I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, 'This woman's amazing.' I'm happy that I'm with her. She's amazing, and I'd think the same of her even if she wasn't with me - she's just amazing.

  Tom Cruise

  Thinking, Wife, Katie

  "Loving Life". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 23, 2005.

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• Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  Natalie Dormer

  Lovely, Quirky, Genius

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• I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

  Peter Weir

  Kids, Simple, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

  Anthony Horowitz

  Heart, Night, Sky

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• It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.

  Laura Linney

  Son, Hot, Coal

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the signs. For example, I look at a person and I see their coat, their jacket, their handwriting, their iPhone, and I am able to deduct some details about who they are, what they wear, and what they do. For many years I was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. The series trained me to look at the world through these sharp, unforgiving eyes.

  Signe Baumane

  Book, Eye, Reality

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• you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

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• It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

  Larry Holmes

  Brother, Eight, Giving

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• The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

  Laurie R. King

  War, Different, World

  "PW Talks with Laurie R. King". Interview with Robert C. Hahn, www.publishersweekly.com. February 18, 2002.

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