#holmes

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#disguise #method-acting #pretense #role-playing #sherlock-holmes

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #watson #sherlock-holmes

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#afraid #bigger #calls #easier #ever

My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#fans #gave #his #holmes #know

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#career #champion #could #deal #holmes

I know you're an army doctor and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. I know you've got a brother who's worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him—possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife. And I know that your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? {he exits and pops back in.} The name's Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221b Baker Street. Afternoon. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch as BBCs Sherlock

#bbc #john-watson #sherlock #sherlock-holmes #home

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

#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #imagination

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #suicide #the-veiled-lodger #life

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#dr-watson #mystery #sherlock-holmes #art

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#justice