Top 100 Quotes About Moriarty
#1. 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.
Eoin Colfer
#2. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#3. Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
Kam Williams
#4. I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.
Tana French
#5. You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?" said he. "Never.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#6. Moriarty: ... everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. My given name is James."
"James Moriarty."
...
"Really? Sherlock wishes to discuss odd names with me?"
"And a point to Miss Moriarty."
...
"You're an idiot. Truly.
Heather W. Petty
#8. No crime too small' was never exactly Moriarty's slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.
Kim Newman
#9. One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.
Jared Harris
#10. If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods. Detective Stephen Moran
Tana French
#11. Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#12. You can't teach the bird to fly, you can only whisper your encouragement beneath the wings of it's knowing...
Moriarty
Dean Moriarty
#13. The family crest of none other than Professor James Moriarty." The very name filled me with fear, and my trousers with something that was certainly not fear.
Robert Thomas
#14. Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws was a death rattle.
Kim Newman
#15. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.
Emma Jane Holloway
#16. From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund
#19. Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#20. To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret.
Alexander Pope
#21. The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.
Morley Safer
#22. How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'
The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.
Kim Newman
#23. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.
Liane Moriarty
#24. She also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a kind of elevated consciousness, a heightened sensitivity to truth.
Laura Moriarty
#25. It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.
Laura Moriarty
#26. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.
Liane Moriarty
#27. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
Liane Moriarty
#28. Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe:
1. Write a simple narrative.
2. Make a long list.
3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#29. It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning.
Liane Moriarty
#30. If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste?
Jaclyn Moriarty
#31. I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
Liane Moriarty
#32. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will
Liane Moriarty
#33. Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing?
Liane Moriarty
#34. Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?
Liane Moriarty
#35. You look well. Do you take some sort of secret supplement?" "Caffeine?" said Tiffany.
Liane Moriarty
#36. She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.
Liane Moriarty
#37. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.
Laura Moriarty
#38. Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
Michael Moriarty
#39. he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have
Liane Moriarty
#40. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
Liane Moriarty
#41. Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.
Liane Moriarty
#42. Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.
MORIARTY
#43. Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.
Cathy Moriarty
#44. When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms.
Liane Moriarty
#45. Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall.
Liane Moriarty
#46. I can't believe they let us name a person," Nick had said. "It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do." "Or the Queen of the Kingdom," Alice said. "Oh, they'd never let a woman name a person," said Nick. "Obviously.
Liane Moriarty
#47. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
Liane Moriarty
#48. Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict.
Liane Moriarty
#49. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.
Kim Newman
#50. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.
Liane Moriarty
#51. She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.
Liane Moriarty
#52. Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She
Liane Moriarty
#53. He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.
Liane Moriarty
#54. Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
Michael Moriarty
#55. I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends.
Liane Moriarty
#56. But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
Liane Moriarty
#57. Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice!
Liane Moriarty
#58. I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.
Cathy Moriarty
#59. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.
Liane Moriarty
#60. The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
Liane Moriarty
#61. My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
Michael Moriarty
#62. Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.
Liane Moriarty
#63. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.
Liane Moriarty
#64. I was just average, I'm afraid. Too dreamy. After school,
Liane Moriarty
#65. Perry was away often. He sometimes felt like an aberration in her life. A visitor. Her real life took place when he wasn't there. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, the next day or the next week.
Liane Moriarty
#66. Honey, you should see me in a crown.
MORIARTY
#67. Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age?
Liane Moriarty
#68. I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
Liane Moriarty
#69. Jewelry and clothes for Isabel and Polly. A piece of the Berlin Wall for Esther.
Liane Moriarty
#70. Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
Liane Moriarty
#73. On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline
Liane Moriarty
#74. Everyone knew that a stolen kiss was the most erotic thing in the world.
Liane Moriarty
#76. For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You
Liane Moriarty
#77. I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise.
Liane Moriarty
#78. Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.
Liane Moriarty
#79. About six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so ... the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.
Liane Moriarty
#80. Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew.
Liane Moriarty
#81. If you didn't suspect you had social anxiety, you wouldn't bother doing the quiz; you'd be too busy chatting with the receptionist.
Liane Moriarty
#82. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.
Liane Moriarty
#83. National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'
Michael Moriarty
#86. Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn't 'get well'.
Liane Moriarty
#87. I want gunshots and canned laughter and dog food commercials. Nothing seems too tragic when the television is blaring.
Liane Moriarty
#88. My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you?
Liane Moriarty
#89. If an arm-less, leg-less woman on a skateboard could find a man, surely Sophie was doing something very, very wrong? How did this woman meet him? Pull on his trouser leg as she rolled by him in a nightclub?) Now
Liane Moriarty
#90. He owned an apricot polo shirt, and ironed it himself. Yes, he was probably gay.
Liane Moriarty
#92. She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall.
Liane Moriarty
#93. How could she explain to Felicity that her anxiety was like a strange, mercurial little pet she was forced to look after? Sometimes it was quiet and pliable; other days it was crazy, running around in circles, yapping in her ear.
Liane Moriarty
#94. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
Liane Moriarty
#95. There was nothing wrong with the color. He'd call back the next day and say it was fine. He'd just needed to feel powerful for a few minutes. One of the younger hotshots had just made him feel inferior in a meeting.
Liane Moriarty
#96. You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
Liane Moriarty
#98. Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.
Liane Moriarty
#99. I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.
Cathy Moriarty
#100. Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.
Jaclyn Moriarty
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