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“[(CNN) -- The cardinal rule of criminal detection was carved in stone more than a century ago.] It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence, ... It biases the judgment.”
Sherlock Holmes
“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.”
Goran Visnjic
“Perhaps the plaintive numbers flowFor old, unhappy, far-off things,And battles long ago.”
William Wordsworth
“They actually came to me over a year ago, and I was having an ever-so-mild nervous breakdown at that point, and felt I needed to just stop. So I went, "I can't look at anything right now, I need to stop." I wasn't really having a nervous breakdown, I'd just done too much stuff back to back. And so a whole lot of time went by, and they called and said, "Are you ready now to take a look at this script?" So I did and then met with him in the UK.”
Guy Pearce
“I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.”
Joseph Addison
“If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
Richard M. DeVos
“This will be our first full football season. But we put out our first show a couple months ago. We began by reviewing what happened last year.”
Chris Doelle
“Generally, it's a fellow who had a motorcycle 20 or 30 years ago, ... They're guys who are either retired or nearing retirement. I think their mind-set is, 'This will be the last bike I have. I want to revisit the old times.'”
Steve Armstrong
“Two weeks ago, we were 9-0 and we felt like we were knocking on the door. Now we feel like we are trying to find the right address.”
Mike Shula
“She and I met long, long, long ago for an audition on another movie that I was not allowed to cast her in,”
John Madden