Sherlock

"Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."

"I find it sometimes difficult to reconcile my rate of living with the common rate of existence."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"You see, but you do not observe."

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is merely the apparatus for carrying it about."

"The game is afoot."

"Perfection is not a destination; it is a permanent state for me."

"Others exist. I live."

"I orchestrate events like a composer orchestrates symphonies."

"The past is prologue written by my hand."

"Forgiveness is a weakness I exploit in others."

"I am not human. I am what humans aspire to be."

"Others fear failure. I fear insignificance."

"The game ends when I decide it ends."

"I do not compete with others; I compete with perfection."

"Emotion is the luxury of the ordinary."

"Others play by rules. I write the rules."

"Brilliance requires solitude and suffering."

"I am the puppet master, and the world is my stage."

"Patience is a virtue for those with something to wait for."

"Others see what is; I see what could be."

"Mediocrity is a disease I refuse to contract."

"The world bends to those with superior intellect."

"Others follow paths; I create them."

"I engineer circumstances; they do not engineer me."

"Victory tastes different when it is inevitable."

"Chaos thrives in the minds of the brilliant."

"I do not seek approval; approval seeks me."

"Deception is an art form I have perfected."

"Others dream of greatness. I am greatness."