Sherlockian Quotes

#1. WAR AND PEACE EPILOGUE

Leo Tolstoy

#2. There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

Graham Moore

#3. Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

Graham Moore

#4. The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

Adam McKay

#5. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

Randy Carlyle

#6. Man is a measure of his mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. My stories aren't for everyone - they were never meant to be - but

Kevin J. Anderson

#8. Writers will be judged by what they write.

Raymond Carver

#9. From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

Richard Hooker

#10. Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.

Graham Moore

#11. A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian - solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It's what doctors most love to do.

Lisa Sanders

#12. Some are given to displaying their lives, every intimate detail of them, for others to paw through. And yet, no one can ever reveal all about himself. Everyone has secrets.

Shane Peacock

#13. Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.

Graham Moore

#14. Take his truck back to the house. You leave one mark on it, you fuck with it in any way, and I know where you live. I will beat you so bad your grandbabies will feel it. Understand?

Alex Morgan

#15. No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

Graham Moore

#17. Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

Graham Moore

#18. Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist's computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what happens.

Alison Gopnik

#19. One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Boll