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• 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

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