Quotes About Sherlock Holmes Books

#1. I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.

Laurie R. King

#2. Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.

Mitch Cullin

#3. You have a face that suits a woman
For her soul's screen
The sort of beauty that's called human
In hell, Faustine.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#4. The secret to renewal and true confidence is simple: Get back to the basics.

Tim Sanders

#5. In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

Steve Coogan

#7. Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

Rajneesh

#8. Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Neil LaBute

#9. Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

Brock Larson

#10. This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Jane Hamilton

#11. Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Jeffrey Donovan

#12. What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Kate Millett

#13. His instinct is to kill me. His desire is to love me.

Kitty Thomas

#14. Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.

Jessi Kirby

#15. It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Edward S. Greenberg

#16. A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

Robin Hobb

#17. Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

Bryant McGill

#18. I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

Judy Greer

#19. At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe

#20. 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