The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time. — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion. — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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