Holm Quotes

1. "Are you prepared to be the complete Watson?" he asked."Watson?""Do-you-follow-me-Watson; that one. Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing? Because it all helps.""My dear Tony," said Bill delightedly, "need you ask?" Antony said nothing, and Bill went on happily to himself, "I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me. Tut, tut, you know my methods. Where is the tobacco? The tobacco is in the Persian slipper. Can I leave my practice for a week? I can."
Author: A.A. Milne

2. "Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us."
Author: Anthony Horowitz

3. "Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l'ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

4. "Sherlock Holmes prese il suo flacone dall'angolo della mensola del caminetto e la sua siringa ipodermica da un elegante astuccio di marocchino. Con le sue dita lunghe e nervose infilò l'ago sottile e arrotolò la manica sinistra della camicia. Per un po', osservò pensoso l'avambraccio muscoloso e il polso, costellati di innumerevoli segni di punture. Alla fine, infilò con gesto deciso la siringa, premette il pistone e si abbandonò nella poltrona di velluto con un lungo sospiro di soddisfazione.[...]«Cos'è oggi», gli chiesi, «morfina o cocaina?»[...]«Cocaina», rispose, «soluzione al sette per cento. Vuole provarla?»"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

5. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know." ~ The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

6. "(...) We are bound to go."My answer was to rise from the table."You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go."He sprang up and shook me by the hand."I knew you would not shrink at the last," said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

7. "Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low laugh and put his lips to my ear."It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

8. "It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

9. "How long is this to last?" asked the inspector finally. "And what is it we are watching for?""I have no more notion than you how long it is to last," Holmes answered with some asperity. "If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

10. "Oh how I've missed you, Holmes."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

11. "Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.]"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

12. "All right, Watson. Don't look so scared," he muttered in a very weak voice. "It's not as bad as it seems.""Thank God for that!""I'm a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.""What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I'll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.""Good old Watson!(...)"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

13. "Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

14. "The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?""On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

15. "The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

16. "I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

17. "Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

18. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

19. "I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson"
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

20. "Bohemya Kralligi'ni tehdit eden büyük bir skandalin ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kadinin zekasina yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kadinlarin zekasiyla ilgili espriler yaptigini duymadim. Ayrica Irene Adler'den veya fotografindan her zaman övgüyle söz etti."
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

21. "Bill Thompson edited ‘Whitechapel,' and his first question to me was, "Why in God's name do you want to bring down Superman?" And my answer was, and remains, by breaking down Holmes as this untouchable machine, it gives him the chance to become the hero we need him to be."
Author: Bernard Schaffer

22. "Holmes non amava farsi toccare. Il contatto fisico umano era per lui qualcosa di molto vicino alla migliore definizione dell'aggettivo ripugnante. Ma anche di rappresentazione perfetta delle debolezze umane. O ancora di estrema inutilità. Holmes non amava nemmeno le eccezioni. Ne tollerava una sola. Me."
Author: Cristina Bruni

23. "So bene che ciò non si confà all'immagine della mia persona che ho sempre descritto nei resoconti dei più brillanti casi del mio amico Sherlock Holmes. Ma la verità pura e semplice è che io ci sarei morto, su quelle labbra."
Author: Cristina Bruni

24. "Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself."
Author: David Tennant

25. "I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me."
Author: Emilia Fox

26. "Like I said, I am typically an observant man. Sherlock Holmes and I, we could hang out."
Author: Emma Chase

27. "No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot."
Author: Emma Jane Holloway

28. "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."
Author: Evander Holyfield

29. "Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as an intermediary, so that Holmes's thoughts might be forever kept just out of reach. If you told stories from Holmes's perspective, everyone would know what the bleeding genius was thinking the whole time. They'd have the culprit fingered on page one."
Author: Graham Moore

30. "[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] ‘I don't care whether you do or not,' said Bram. ‘But you will, eventually. He's yours, till death do you part. Did you really think he was dead and gone when you wrote "The Final Problem"? I don't think you did. I think you always knew he'd be back. But whenever you take up your pen and continue, heed my advice. Don't bring him here. Don't bring Sherlock Holmes into the electric light. Leave him in the mysterious and romantic flicker of the gas lamp. He won't stand next to this, do you see? The glare would melt him away. He was more the man of our time than Oscar was. Or than we were. Leave him where he belongs, in the last days of our bygone century. Because in a hundred years, no one will care about me. Or you. Or Oscar. We stopped caring about Oscar years ago, and we were his bloody *friends.* No, what they'll remember are the stories. They'll remember Holmes. And Watson. And Dorian Gray."
Author: Graham Moore

31. "You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country."
Author: Guglielmo Marconi

32. "Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered."
Author: Jeff Lindsay

33. "I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you."
Author: Joshua Jackson

34. "Året er 1945. Den 26. mai kom politimesteren i Arendal til Nørholm og forkynte husarrest for min kone og meg for 30 dager. Jeg ble ikke varslet. Min kone utleverte ham på forlangende mine skytevåpen. Jeg måtte da skrive til politimesteren efterpå at jeg også hadde to store pistoler fra siste olympiaden i Paris, han kunne hente dem når han syntes. Samtidig skrev jeg at husarresten vel ikke var bokstavelig å forstå, jeg hadde jo jordbruk vidt omkring fra gården, og det trengte tilsyn. Efter noen tid kom lensmannsbetjenten i Eide og hentet de to pistoler."
Author: Knut Hamsun

35. "All that was Emmanuelle Holmes in his kitchen in his tee making him a sandwich after he'd fucked her and they'd both come hard.That did not suck."
Author: Kristen Ashley

36. "I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the lumber room down the hallway, and I heard thumps and a crash.I raised my voice a trifle more than mere volume required. "I'm interested because she was. Both of them, come to that--Damian's art is infused with mystic symbols and traditions."Holmes' voice answered two inches away from my ear, making me jerk and spray a handful of maps across the floor. "Religion can be a dangerous thing, it is true," he remarked darkly, and went out again."
Author: Laurie R. King

37. "Holmes, you're a genius.So I have been told."
Author: Laurie R. King

38. "And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head."
Author: Mark Haddon

39. "Sì, è possibile trapiantare l'ipofisi di uno Spinoza o di qualche altro povero diavolo e fabbricare da un cane un essere intelligentissimo. Ma perché farlo? Me lo dica lei, per favore: perché fabbricare artificialmente gli Spinoza quando una qualunque donnetta è capace di sfornarne uno quando vuole. Madame Lomonosov ha messo al mondo a Cholmogory quel suo celeberrimo figlio. Dottore, è la stessa umanità che ci pensa e, grazie all'evoluzione, genera ostinatamente, ogni anno, dalla gentaglia più triviale, decine di geni eminenti, abbellendo il globo terrestre."
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

40. "The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel."
Author: Nicholas Meyer

41. "I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks."
Author: Patty Hearst

42. "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."
Author: Peter Weir

43. "I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best."
Author: Rex Stout

44. "No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard."
Author: Richard Kadrey

45. "Egész nap orvosságot szedtem, és Isten ne vegye bunömül, holmi francia regények olvasásával mulattam magam."
Author: Samuel Pepys

46. "Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version."
Author: Stacy Schiff

47. "Originally published in Sweden as Män Som Hatar Kvinnor by Norstedts, Stockholm, in 2005. Published with agreement of Norstedts Agency. Copyright © 2005 by Norstedts Agency. This translation originally published in Great Britain by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, London."
Author: Stieg Larsson

48. "Mik az álmok? Jelenetek, triviális vagy tragikus, mozgó vagy statikus, fantasztikus vagy közönséges jelenetek véletlenszeru sorozatai, melyekben többé vagy kevésbé valószeru eseményeket habarcsolnak össze holmi groteszk részletek és holtak jelennek meg bennük új díszletek között."
Author: Vladimir Nabokov

49. "He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)"
Author: Walter Isaacson

50. "Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinistercurrent is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves."-Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004"
Author: Zeena Schreck

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