Watson Quotes - Page 8

• They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

  Jeremy Brett

  Men, Lovely, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

  Jeremy Brett

  Long Ago, Important, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Light, Soul

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• The fair sex is your department.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sex, Dr Watson, Department

  "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)

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• I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Mind, Wonder

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• Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Air, Sound, Density

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• Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Simplicity, Drs, Holmes

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• I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.

  Rupert Grint

  Brother, Growing Up, Character

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• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Kissing, Intelligent, Years

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• It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

  Jude Law

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Player, Two

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• [Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  World, Sentimental, Influence

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

  Geoffrey Hinton

  Past, Ideas, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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