#watson

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#arnold palmer #compete #control #could #events

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#given #his #people #quota #rebels

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#april #cambridge #decided #dna #francis

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#doctor-watson #escape #late-visit #scrambling #sherlock-holmes

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cocaine-and-ambition #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #nature

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#watson #sherlock-holmes

My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. "You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake say that you're not hurt!" It was worth a wound -it was worth many wounds- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay beyond that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #love

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #watson #humor

Don't talk, Anderson. You lower the IQ of the entire street every time you open your mouth. ↗

— Sherlock Holmes

#humor #sherlock-holmes #watson #humor

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within. ↗

— Emma Watson

#beauty