Sherlock S1e1 Quotes & Sayings

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy. — Myles Munroe

Getting tossed in a meat grinder every now and then is part of what I do. I came back to earth to kill things, so I have to expect things to fight back occasionally. — Richard Kadrey

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't. — Jeanette Winterson

INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION. This is a handicap that may be overcome with comparative ease. Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as 'self-made' or self-educated. It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know. — Napoleon Hill

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills. — Gillian Jacobs

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill. — Kim Cattrall

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine. — Victoria Alexander

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can't really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought. — Adyashanti

What is history, indeed, but a record of change? — Jawaharlal Nehru