Arthur Conan Doyle Moriarty Quotes & Sayings

I think I really produce my best work in Iran. — Abbas Kiarostami

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours. — Arthur Conan Doyle

we hear brilliant and great suggestions when failure comes our way — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. — Arthur Conan Doyle

From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I drink because I'm thirsty. — Shane MacGowan

Cut! Go again."
And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to the director: "This isn't a fucking marathon! If we're going to go again, tell him on the bloody bike to slow down."
David turned to me and said, "Having a bit of trouble, Captain?"
"That's all right for you to say," I laughed breathlessly, "but I'm carrying a rucksack on my back with your fucking hand in a glass jar inside — John Barrowman

You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty?" said he. "Never. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it? — Arthur Conan Doyle

People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story. — Jennifer Brown

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people. — Roger Wicker

Moriarty: ... everything I have to say has already crossed your mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Choosing the criteria for choosing — Nick Bostrom

This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one? — Cormac McCarthy

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged. — Arthur Conan Doyle