“A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes.”— Mark Goffman, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Good, Detective, task, Interaction, banal
“Nothing makes a smart man stupid like a quest for vengeance.”— Robert Doherty, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Smart, Stupid, Quest, Vengeance
“Sherlock Holmes: You seem even more dour than usual, Watson. I would posit it was a menstruation issue but I worked out your cycle. You're good for ten more days. Dr. Joan Watson: Couching it as a scientific observation totally negates the misogyny.”— Christopher Silber, Dr. Joan Watson, Lucy Liu, imdb.comTagged: dour, menstruation, cycle, scientific observation, sarcastic
“I am smarter than everyone I meet, Watson. I know it's bad form to say that, but in my case it's a fact.”— Craig Sweeny, Jeffrey Paul King, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Smart, Bad, fact, Truth
“This is a sign of an active mind. Lincoln, Einstein, Freud - all geniuses who drew inspiration from chaos in their environs. Without Andrew Fleming's reluctance to wash petrie dishes, the world wouldn't have penicillin, would it?”— Liz Friedman, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: active mind, lincoln, einstein, Freud, Genius
“When you've eliminated then impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.”— Corinne Brinkerhoff, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: eliminate, impossible, Improbable, Truth
“Before you say anything I would like to remind you that I am holding an axe.”— Corinne Brinkerhoff, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Remind, talking, axe, Threat
“Detective Marcus Bell: Yeah, tell me something I don't know. Sherlock Holmes: A pig's orgasm lasts up to thirty minutes.”— Peter Blake, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: tell me something i don't know, Pig, orgasm, Long, Sassy
“Sherlock Holmes: I left some urine in your room. Dr. Joan Watson: Tell me it's in a cup.”— Christopher Silber, Dr. Joan Watson, Lucy Liu, imdb.comTagged: Urine, Room, cup
“Dr. Joan Watson: Can I ask you a question? Sherlock Holmes: Can I stop you?”— Corinne Brinkerhoff, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Question, Ask, Stop
“Luck is an offensive, abhorrent concept. The idea that there is a force in the universe tilting events in your favor or against it is ridiculous.”— Liz Friedman, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Luck, Offensive, abhorrent, idea, force
“Learning to see the puzzle in everything. They're everywhere. Once you start looking, it's impossible to stop. It just so happens that people, with all the deceits and illusions that inform everything they do, tend to be the most fascinating puzzles of all.”— Craig Sweeny, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: Puzzle, Learning, Everywhere, deceits, Illusions
“From a drop of water, a logician can infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara, without having seen or heard of either one.”— Peter Blake, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: logician, Water, Atlantic, Niagara Falls
“Dr. Joan Watson: How did you know he had an affair? Sherlock Holmes: Google. Not everything is deducible.”— Robert Doherty, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: affair, Google, Research, deductible
“Dr. Joan Watson: Hey, I found something in the hall closet the other day. Sherlock Holmes: Was it the zipper mask, because I swear I'm just holding that for a friend.”— Robert Doherty, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.comTagged: hall closet, found, zipper mask, Friend
“Now you fuckers know how much you miss this place when you can’t have it.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Mike "Wags" Wagner, David Costabile, imdb.comTagged: You Have To Lose It To Know What You Had, Loss
“Millions of years ago a meteor hit the earth and brought on an ice age and even the mightiest of T-Rexes were brought to skeletons.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.comTagged: hedge funds, Finance, TV Quotes
“I had managed something better than payback. By acting with purpose and understatement, I had created a more just environment, which is what I am asking of all of you. This is the new way.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.comTagged: Creative Mercy, Forgiveness as Punishment, Political Machinations, Christian Archetypes
“Our practices leave grooves over time. And eventually, those grooves become walls that box us in.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.comTagged: Habit, Routine, (Example of Good Tags), How You Get Stuck