Top 53 Quotes About John Holmes
#1. If this was a dick measuring contest, I found myself thinking numbly, then I was Pee Wee and she was John Holmes.
Jeaniene Frost
#2. No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.
John Haynes Holmes
#3. Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
John Clellon Holmes
#4. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.
Anthony Horowitz
#5. John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
Jack Kerouac
#6. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by John H. Watson, M.D., "The Adventure of the Yellow Face
Emma Jane Holloway
#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
#10. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Holmes
#11. To make a current example, the world can find human interest in the death and the love affairs and the pallid addiction to cocaine of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
John Albert Macy
#12. Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Holmes
#13. But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
John Clellon Holmes
#14. One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#15. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.
John Haynes Holmes
#17. Sherlock: If the occasional pile of clutter offends you, by all means move it.
John: Last time I tried that I was bitten by a large spider you appeared to be using as a bookmark.
Guy Adams
#18. We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't, too. Like electricity, and refrigerators. And Mario Kart.
Brittany Cavallaro
#19. It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
#20. If the day is not going well you can start it again at any time
Chris Hutchins
#21. A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.
John Clellon Holmes
#22. As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.
- Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#23. If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.
John Haynes Holmes
#24. I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.
John Holmes
#25. Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
John Clellon Holmes
#26. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.
John Clellon Holmes
#27. A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.
John Holmes
#28. So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#29. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.
John Sandford
#30. Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
#32. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#33. 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
#34. Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#35. 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
#37. John Andrew Holmes, No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
Tim Sanders
#38. The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
John Clellon Holmes
#39. John [to Sherlock]: You're incredible. A genius. A good friend. And a lousy driver.
Guy Adams
#40. The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
John Holmes
#41. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Holmes
#43. The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
John Clellon Holmes
#44. The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.
John Haynes Holmes
#45. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Holmes
#46. Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.
John Haynes Holmes
#48. To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.
John Holmes
#49. Everything in the Universe is for us. Nothing is against us. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people, but not necessarily used by all people." - Ernest Holmes in The Science of Mind
John Randolph Price
#50. Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. Speaking professionally, it was admirably done."
-John H. Watson-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-
Arthur Conan Doyle
#52. No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.
Guy Adams
#53. Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.
John Haynes Holmes
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