Quotes About Holmes

Sherlock is my name and Holmes is my nature.

Sherlock Holmes used the process of induction—not deduction.

If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

To those who don't understand why Fenton or Feinstein didn't simply put Holmes into a hospital whether he wanted to go or not: it just doesn't work that way. Protection from unjustified confinement is a very important civil right in the United States.

Blaming the shootings on the doctors or lack of money doesn't wash, of course. It's a ridiculous rationalization, or just crazy. Holmes admits that Drs. Fenton and Feinstein offered to see him regardless of insurance and that he had plenty of money and additional support from his parents. Bob and Arlene had told him clearly that money was no problem when it came to getting psychiatric help.

I did not find, and don't believe today, that Holmes met accepted psychiatric criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or its even more serious cousin, schizoaffective disorder, at the time of the shootings.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

there was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you.

Well, Watson. Yes, Holmes? I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

Oliver Wendell Holmes decía: "La mayor tragedia de América no es el gran desperdicio de recursos naturales, aunque esto ya es trágico. La mayor tragedia es el desperdicio de recursos humanos".

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes. That's professor Moriarty, corrected Foaly. Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.

Holmes, you're a genius. So I have been told.

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Hugh] winced as I squealed the tyres, but after all, it wasn't his motorcar. Holmes did more than wince before we were out of Oxford, but I didn't hit anybody, and only brushed the farm cart slightly. It wasn't his automobile either, and what do men know about driving?