Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

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

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.- Watson

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

No ghosts need

...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

I must apologize for calling so late, " said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.