I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in
All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.
I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.
There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.
It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention to detail, his ravenous hunger for all aspects of knowledge that might feed into his work. But the major thing that makes him Sherlock is his relationship with Watson - their friendship. For me, that, I guess, is the biggest side, the more interesting side than the genius.
If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you. "
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.
