221b Baker Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev

I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not lying! How many times have I told you that your basic error consists in underestimating the significance of the human eye. Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never! A sudden question is put to you, you don't even flinch, in one second you get hold of yourself and know what you must say to conceal the truth, and you speak quite convincingly, and not a wrinkle on your face moves, but - alas - the truth which the question stirs up from the bottom of your soul leaps momentarily into your eyes, and it's all over! They see it, and you're caught! — Mikhail Bulgakov

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent. — Barack Obama

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The fights I fought ... cost a lot
the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House. — William J. Clinton

Kit: We could go to Baker Street. We are in London.
Ty: To 221B Baker Street? — Cassandra Clare

The only reason for security is that our salvation is in God's hand. Our — John Calvin

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck. — Herman Melville

There it was, a sign above a shop that said 221B BAKER STREET. My mouth hung open. I looked around at the ordinary street and the white-painted buildings, looking clean in the morning rain. Where were the fog, the streetlights, the gray atmosphere? The horses pulling carriages, bringing troubled clients to Watson and Holmes? I had to admit I had been impressed with Big Ben and all, but for a kid who had devoured the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, this was really something. I was on Baker Street, driving by the rooms of Holmes and Watson! I sort of wished it were all in black and white and gray, like in the movies. — James R. Benn

I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly. — Marshall Thornton

Sherlock Holmes is a literary figment. He lives in Neverland, so he always gets to be right. But if he tried to ply his trade as a "consulting detective" in the real world, he would be a dangerously incompetent boob - more like The Pink Panther's Inspector Clouseau than the genius who lives with his friend Watson at 221b Baker Street. — Jonathan Gottschall

Transform the earth, not patch up the old plan. — George Herbert Clarke

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. — Alice Paul