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Added June 18 2013

A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

My Lost Youth (1858)

Added June 16 2013

Sherlock Holmes: Oh what now? I’m in shock! Look, I’ve got a blanket.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Added June 13 2013

It’s career suicide, colleagues tell me, to speak out against the literary establishment; they’ll smear you. But never mind. I’m too old and too invisible to said establishment to care.

"My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters", The Nation, April 29, 2013

Dexter Morgan: She’s the only person in the world who loves me. I think that’s nice. I don’t have feeling about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I’d have them for Deb.

Dexter (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Dexter

Tony Soprano: I’m serious. The wrong person finds out about this and I get a steel-jacketed anti-depressant right in the back of the head!

Pilot (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: The Sopranos

Added June 12 2013

Perhaps my early apathy and indifference are a result of what Thatcher deliberately engendered, the idea that “there is no such thing as society”, that we are alone on our journey through life, solitary atoms of consciousness.

Regarding Margaret Thatcher, The Guardian, Tuesday 9 April 2013
Posted in: Russell Brand

Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

The Builders (1849)

Added June 11 2013

Watson: What am I doing here?
Holmes: Helping me make a point.
Watson: I’m supposed to be helping you pay the rent.
Holmes: Yeah, well, this is more fun.
Watson: Fun? There’s a woman lying dead.
Holmes: Perfectly sound analysis but I was hoping you’d go deeper.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Don Draper: All I have is a crush-proof box, and four out of five dead people smoked your brand.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Mad Men

Added June 9 2013

I hope I’m not being reductive but it seems Thatcher’s time in power was solely spent diminishing the resources of those who had least for the advancement of those who had most. I know from my own indulgence in selfish behaviour that it’s much easier to get what you want if you remove from consideration the effect your actions will have on others.

The Guardian, Tuesday 9 April 2013
Posted in: Russell Brand

Sherlock Holmes: You’ve murdered four people.
Jeff: I’ve outlived four people. That’s the most fun you can have with an aneurysm.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Dexter Morgan: People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess.

Dexter (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Dexter

Added June 8 2013

Watson: A place like this must be expensive.
Holmes: Not really. I know the landlady, Mrs. Hudson. She owes me a favor. A few years back, her husband was sentenced to death in Florida. I was able to help out.
Watson: You stopped her husband from being executed?
Holmes: Oh, no, I ensured it.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Added June 7 2013

Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Small Gods
Posted in: Terry Pratchett

Added June 6 2013

I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.

The Children's Hour (1860)

Added June 5 2013

Holmes: Why have I got this blanket? They keep putting this blanket on me.
Lestrade: Yeah, it’s for shock.
Holmes: I’m not in shock.
Lestrade: Yeah, but some of the guys want to take photographs.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Added June 4 2013

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It’s unreliable levers that are the problem.

Small Gods
Posted in: Terry Pratchett

Mycroft: Bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity, don’t you think?

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Phil: It’s just one of those things we’ll never know, like what happened to the Titanic.
Claire: It hit an iceberg.
Phil: Maybe.

When Good Kids Go Bad (season 3, episode 2)
Posted in: Modern Family

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (2002)

Added June 3 2013

Anderson: Never mind that, we found the case! According to “someone,” the murderer has the case, and here we found it, in the hands of our favorite psychopath.
Sherlock Holmes: I’m not a psychopath, Anderson, I’m a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

A Study in Pink (season 1, episode 1)
Posted in: Sherlock

Ted: The last seed?
Once-ler: It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become. Just like – you’re not just a boy.

Posted in: The Lorax

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (2002)
Posted in: Uncategorized

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

Speech to Small Business Bureau Conference (8 February, 1984)

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Dangling Man (1944)
Posted in: Saul Bellow