Aza Holmes Quotes

Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did. Even I found myself annoying. ~ John Green

Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves. ~ John Green

The problem with happy endings, I said, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die. ~ John Green

To be alive is to be missing. ~ John Green

Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing. ~ John Green

My children are grown-ups., so you and Noah are my only little boys I have left. ~ John Green

You seemed locked inside of your mind, and I can't know what's going on in there, and it scared me. ~ John Green

At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time - between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M. - by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them. ~ John Green

Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
And then I got in the car. ~ John Green

Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please just let me out whoever is authoring me, let me up out of this. Anything to be out of this. ~ John Green

Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it. ~ John Green

It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light. Three years from now, I knew, he'd find a different favorite star, one with older light to gaze upon. And when time caught up with that one, he'd love a farther star, and a farther one, because you can't let the light catch up with the present. Otherwise you'd forget. ~ John Green

Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons. ~ John Green

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness. ~ Graham Moore

So what is the truth?" Mr Umezaki had once asked him. "How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn't want to be known? ~ Mitch Cullin

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK. ~ Peter Jackson

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion. ~ Larry Holmes

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways. ~ Jude Law

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter. ~ Ernest Holmes

You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing. ~ James Holmes

the reality of survival for my Triqui companions shows that it would be riskier to stay in San Miguel without work, money, food, or education. In this original context, crossing the border is not a choice to engage in a risk behavior but rather a process necessary to survive, to make life less risky. ~ Seth Holmes

God is not so much spoken about as speaking-God makes himself known. ~ Stephen R. Holmes

The real thing--Scotland Yard? Or Sherlock Holmes? ~ Anonymous

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy. ~ Andy Lane

Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Thank you, Mina Holmes. We would never have been able to do this without your assistance. - Lurelia ~ Colleen Gleason

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition. ~ Jeremy Holmes

A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results. ~ Ernest Holmes

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful. ~ Katie Holmes

Sometimes I rode the Circle Line reading a book on organic chemistry and sometimes I read Leave It to Psmith for the 20th or 21st time and sometimes I watched Jeremy Brett's marvellous grotesque Sherlock Holmes or of course Seven Samurai. I sometimes went out for Tennessee Fried Chicken.
Day followed day. A year went by. ~ Helen DeWitt

You cannot grab hold of tomorrows when you hold the past with both hands. ~ Gina Holmes

i caught feelings for you before i truly knew what those feelings meant ~ Edgar Holmes

We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies. ~ Elizabeth Holmes

If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place. ~ Ryan Holmes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God. ~ Alvin Holmes

Love prefers twilight to daylight. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. ~ Ryan Holmes

It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields. I walked to the window, and looked out on the deserted street. The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. A single cab was splashing its way from the Oxford Street end. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit, digesting the day's papers, puffing on his long pipe, injecting himself with cocaine. He would pop smoke rings into the gloom, waiting for something, anything, to pierce into the belly of his study and release the promise of adventure; of clues to interpret; of, at last he would plead, a puzzle he could not solve. And after each story he would return here, into the dark room, and die day by day of boredom. The darkness of his study was his cage, but also the womb of his genius. ~ Graham Moore

It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level. ~ Elizabeth Holmes

It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores. ~ Katie Holmes

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that, ~ Elizabeth Holmes

That's," I say. My words are all tangled up. "That's. Insane. You're insane."
"I prefer the term brilliant. ~ Eva Morgan

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe. ~ Kelly Holmes

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul. ~ Ernest Holmes

I remember seeing this video for the first time in college - miserable, half-drunk on Keystone Light, a Camel Light smoldering in my mouth, about to desperately tap-dance my way through another social interaction - and saying out loud: "I fucking *get* you, Bee Girl. ~ Dave Holmes