sherlock-holmes

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

She leaned back, closing her eyes and blowing out a thin wisp of smoke. __e was always a good-looking man. Your eyes are from him, the same blue, but you are slimmer of build and have your grandmother__ exotic face rather than his rounder, friendly one. He was a bit of a bounder, as men of his looks are apt to be.__ grinned at this, adding to my mental picture.__e married as often as_ she blinked, laughed, __ell, as often as I did, I suppose, though my reasons were infinitely better.

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he__ exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there__ no limit to what he might yet accomplish

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

That__ our cue,_ Dr. Chadwick noted, managing to approximate a cheerful smile, addressing the room at large. __veryone please stand behind the yellow line until the doors open. No food, drink, flash photography, or video cameras are permitted. Once aboard the ride, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times until we come to a full and complete stop. Otherwise, they__e apt to end up in another universe somewhere without ya, and wouldn__ that fry your noggin?

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.__Sherlock Holmes

Well, it is generally considered_ though not always true_ that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event it is false, and I have known that to be so in more than one circumstance , it is still accorded her in deference to her husband."~Sherlock Holmes, with respect to aristocratic titles

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one__ adversaries to underestimate one__ abilities.__Sherlock Holmes

I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future__f it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs_I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.__Sherlock Holmes

She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves alone.The queer sensation in her chest, however, was all too familiar, that mix of pleasure and pain, never one without the other.She could have done without those feelings. She would have happily gone her entire life never experiencing the pangs of longing and the futility of regret. He made her human__r as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life.

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the black coats of the marching gentlefold and fuller than the moon against the fractal spires of Westminster. They were, Arthur quickly realized, the new electric lights, which the city government was installing, avenue by avenue, square by square, in place of the dirty gas lamps that had lit London's public spaces for a century. These new electric ones were brighter. They were cheaper. They required less maintenance. And they shone farther into the dime evening, exposing every crack in the pavement, every plump turtle sheel of stone underfoot. So long to the faint chiaroscuro of London, to the ladies and gentlemen in black-on-black relief. So long to the era of mist and carbonized Newcastle coal, to the stench of the Blackfriars foundry. Welcome to the cleasing glare of the twentieth century.

It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?" "Who cares if you impress others?" "Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?

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.

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.