Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.

Men without jobs do not form families.

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.

I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

Tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny.

I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.