Favorite Quotes

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass.
A library is just a genteel black hole that can read
- Mort by Terry Pratchett

"The most dangerous creature in all the world is not a woman
scorned, rather an experienced Dungeon Master rallied to a cause."
- Annonymouse...

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of
darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than
does nature, because in her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes
useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Favorite Quotes

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled
with an infinite number of images which are produced by the
various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is
the target, a lodestone, of these images.
- Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations
of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface
of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The theories which I have expressed there,
and which appear to you to be so chimerical,
are really extremely practical — so practical
that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything
which the mind of man could invent."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Picard: "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode: Darmok

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Favorite Quotes

"You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode:Force of Nature

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the
inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my
disguise must be able to strike terror into their
hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black,
terrible... A... A... A bat! That's it. It's an
omen... I shall become a BAT!"
- Batman #1

Quotes

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System,
it is now possible to travel from coast
to coast without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt

"Never have more children
than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck

Quotaria

"Reason has always existed, but
not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx

"Lying increases the creative
faculties, expands the ego,
and lessens the frictions
of social contacts."
- Clare Booth Luce

"I'm living so far beyond my income that
we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings

"The United States is a nation of laws:
badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa

"The case has, in some respects, been
not entirely devoid of interest."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office."
- Aesop