Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time."[43] The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. Professor ...
Is not all life pathetic and futile? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. (RETI, 17) What is the meaning of it, Watson? What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to...
His whole life was one long succession of them, and when I say that amongst them was the leaping from one aeroplane to another, with handcuffed hands, at the height of three thousand feet, one can form an idea of the extraordinary lengths that he would go. In this, however, as in ...
When we think of Jody, this quote from one of his customers always comes to mind: If the gods left the secret of steel on the battle field beneath a leaden sky, Jody Samson found it, learned its riddle well, has mastered it and now shares it with the awesome folks at Albion. ...
I could quote many more. Well, Sir James, you will inform your client that I am turning my mind upon Baron Gruner. I can say no more. I have some sources of information of my own, and dare say we may find some means of opening matter up." When our visitor had left us, Holmes...
My private informants are so numerous that it would be hardly possible, even if it were desirable, that I should quote their names. Of the correspondents upon whose work I have drawn for my materials, I would acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart, Amery...
To show the length to which the police will go to secure a catch I may quote my own experience recently at Folkestone, a town of which motorists should beware. I was approaching it for the first time along a wide and deserted road when I was stopped by the usual vidette. On turning...