Irene Adler Quotes

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome ~ Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez

Life is seldom about the destination, Sherlock," smiled Irene. "It's about the journey. ~ Melvyn Small

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird. ~ Colleen Gleason

Have you ever had someone? And when I say "had", I'm being indelicate. ~ Irene Adler

Brainy is the new sexy. ~ Irene Adler

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. ~ Steven Adler

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts. ~ Alfred Adler

Miss Mapp moved towards the screen.

"What a delicious big screen," she said.

"Yes, but don't go behind it, Mapp," said Irene, "or you'll see my model undressing."

Miss Mapp retreated from it precipitately, as from a wasp's nest, and examined some of the studies on the wall, for it was more than probable from the unfinished picture on the easel that Adam lurked behind the delicious screen. Terrible though it all was, she was conscious of an unbridled curiosity to know who Adam was. It was dreadful to think that there could be any man in Tilling so depraved as to stand to be looked at with so little on...

Irene strolled round the walls with her.

"Studies of Lucy," she said.

"I see, dear," said Miss Mapp. "How clever! Legs and things! But when you have your bridge-party, won't you perhaps cover some of them up, or turn them to the wall? We should all be looking at your pictures instead of attending to our cards. And if you were thinking of asking the Padre, you know..."

They were approaching the corner of the room where the screen stood, when a movement there as if Adam had hit it with his elbow made Miss Mapp turn round. The screen fell flat on the ground and within a yard of her stood Mr. Hopkins, the proprietor of the fish-shop just up the street. Often and often had Miss Mapp had pleasant little conversations with him, with a view to bringing down the price of flounders. He had little bathing-drawer ~ E.F. Benson

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control. ~ Freda Adler

It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand. ~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. ~ Alfred Adler

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. ~ Renata Adler

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, first when we learn to speak it, second when we learn to read it. Fortunately, mathematics has to be learned only once, since it is almost wholly a written language. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery. ~ Irene Dunne

You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient. ~ Felix Adler

following his dad and uncle.' Rose ~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in life, and strove through a few hundred engrossing pages to attain this object. They were all noble and generous, and their lives were bright and beautiful. What interesting and delightful moments Irene had passed in their society! They had made her laugh and cry and suffer and rejoice, and had entertained her with the brilliancy of their wit. How dull and colourless real people had appeared beside these heroes and heroines of fiction. ~ Aimee Dostoyevsky

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

God knows exactly where we are and precisely where He wants us and He takes an active role in getting us there. ~ Linda Irene

But my core belief - that no matter what happens, God is with me - never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again. He ~ Irene Hannon

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady. ~ Irene Dunne

Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people. ~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality. ~ Alfred Adler

We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live. ~ Felix Adler

A fight with a child is always a losing fight: he can never be beaten or won to cooperation by fighting. In these struggles the weakest always carries the day. Something is demanded of him which he refuses to give; something which can never be gained by such means. An incalculable amount of tension and useless effort would be spared in this world if we realized that cooperation and love can never be won by force. ~ Alfred Adler

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. ~ Alfred Adler

Acting is in everything but the words. ~ Stella Adler

I've had a million setbacks along the way
from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters
that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going. ~ Jonathan Adler

... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian ~ Renata Adler

Annoyingly attractive ~ Dahlia Adler

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion. ~ Hermann Adler

If politics mean ... the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people's children ... then it most assuredly is a woman's job as much as it is a man's job. ~ Irene Parlby

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. ~ Mortimer Adler

The idea is that diseases like cancer and diabetes started around the same time that we began growing our own foods. ~ James Adler