The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight. — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better. — Maria Konnikova 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
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him. — Benedict Cumberbatch 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
It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him'… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself." "Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long… — Jeremy Brett 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
Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that.… — Michael Spinks Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are… — Bailee Madison Copy Share Image
George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient(for I had now returned to… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory." — Errol Morris 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
“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. — Josh Billings 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
Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud. — Victor Kiam 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