Amateur Sleuth Quotes

#1. Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#3. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

Jennifer A. Girardin

#4. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#5. If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

Noorilhuda

#6. No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth ...

Isaac Asimov

#7. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#8. All they wanted of me was one belch of affirmation and I'd bellow it out loud. Yes! Yes! YES! That was all anyone wanted of us, that we should be heard and not seen, and then heard only in one big optimistic chorus of yassuh, yassuh, yassuh!

Ralph Ellison

#9. The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Kamal Ravikant

#10. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#11. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Noorilhuda

#12. Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

Mason Cooley

#13. Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

B. J. Daniels

#14. Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

Robin Hobb

#15. It's as if they've planned out my life for me and I'm expected to live it for them. I hate it. So I don't tell anyone much. It's easier that way." ~Dani O'Meara from the forthcoming amateur sleuth mystery, Dangerous Days for Dani

Claire A. Murray

#16. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

Noorilhuda

#17. I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

Alice McDermott

#18. The whole Universe is moving all the time, and we must do like-wise.

Paulo Coelho

#19. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Noorilhuda

#20. Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Lord Byron

#21. I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

Damon Albarn

#22. He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Noorilhuda

#23. Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. Even in death, her mother was winning.

Noorilhuda

#25. The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Edwin Land

#26. Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#27. I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

Dwyane Wade

#28. Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

Phil Collins

#29. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#30. I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.

Bruce Beckham