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Holmes Quotes by Laurie R. King
- I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,…
- I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and…
- Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared…
- Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
- Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some…
- I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a…
- But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that…
- Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken…
- The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than…
More Holmes Quotes
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate… — Frederick Buechner
- "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud. — Victor Kiam
- The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac
- [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
- We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson… — A. A. Gill
- Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of… — Muhammad Ali
- Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics –… — Tom Scharpling
- I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only… — Steve Coogan
- For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I… — Deborah Kerr
- There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are… — Bailee Madison