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Jeremy Brett Quotes

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Jeremy Brett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: November 3, 1933 - September 12, 1995

Topics

Heart Man Brain Play Difficult Even

I love Rome. I'm very happy there. I wasn't in New York.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Love New York Happy New Rome Very

I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That's a level I can sustain.

John Lanchester

Day Writing Every Day Phone I Can

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Matt Damon

Focus Me Career Now Become Never

I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.

Jeff Buckley

Education Good Grace Rest Learn Own

There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.

John Tesh

Family People Better Universe You

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Tom Sizemore

I Am Always Going Read Novel Reader

Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

Roger Federer

God Game Forward Think Look Career

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.

Martin Zweig

Money Fight Stock Market Harmony Big

The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.

Luis Fonsi

Journey Men Fun Language Interesting

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

Failure Time Fire People You Moral

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

Allen Iverson

Police Think You Police Officers Now

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

Pico Iyer

Today I Am Me Cell Phone Wake Up