Amateur Sleuths Quotes

#1. Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.

Marcia Muller

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

Noorilhuda

#3. 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

#4. Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

John Marin

#5. Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

Ben Jonson

#6. I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

#7. I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Tori Amos

#8. Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Good morning, Jonas. You are a furred lead, I think.

Shirley Jackson

#10. Even though every piece of today feels small. I'll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way this book is completed. Step by step. Word by word. Day by day.

Jennie Allen

#11. Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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

Noorilhuda

#13. I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.

Behati Prinsloo

#14. Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.

Sarah Schulman

#15. As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

E.B. White

#16. 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

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

Noorilhuda

#18. Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

Larry Winget

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

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

Noorilhuda

#23. 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