Quotes About Dr Watson

#1. If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

David Lagercrantz

#2. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

Emma Jane Holloway

#3. We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

A.A. Gill

#4. He is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." STAMFORD, DESCRIBING SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DR. WATSON, IN SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, A STUDY IN SCARLET

Adam S. McHugh

#5. The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, You see, but you do not observe.

Joe Navarro

#6. Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

Emma Jane Holloway

#8. 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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Kinky Friedman

#10. The angel in my head talks to me. He's a little Sherlock Holmes, which, I guess makes me Dr. Watson. I'm not wild about that. Better that he's Starsky and I'm Hutch. At least I get a cool car that way.

Richard Kadrey

#11. I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. The fair sex is your department.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.

Roberto Bolano

#14. My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. You seem to be displaying signs of triviality.

Oscar Wilde

#16. As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

S. Jay Olshansky

#17. Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.

Emma Jane Holloway

#18. Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand.

Ayn Rand

#19. It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer

Jude Watson

#20. Did you know that we're made up of the same matter as stars? We are nuclear energy exploding.

Cath Crowley

#21. Dr. Dunbar would never consider not answering the call of duty.

Larry Watson

#22. We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

Marya Mannes

#23. If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#24. That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Kate Morton

#25. We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#26. The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

Homer

#27. Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories.

David E. Fessenden

#28. When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.

Joanna Lohman

#29. If given a really great chance, I'm going to put it away every single time.

Abby Wambach

#30. Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

Hosea Ballou

#31. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

Helen Keller

#32. Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it.

Carl Hiaasen

#33. German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.

Max Hastings

#34. Science grows like a weed every year.

Kary Mullis