This is not the time for humbugs, Watson!

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

— Gerry Cooney

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“military historian Richard Holmes.”

— Clare Wright

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

— Gerry Cooney

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made…

— Walter Isaacson

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and,…

— Edmund White

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

— Gerry Cooney

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

Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends?…

— Kyle Hill

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very…

— Jeremy Brett

“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades…

— Erik Larson

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

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…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle