Top 40 Eyewitness Quotes
#1. No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#2. I quote the late Ed Murow ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.
Dan Rather
#3. The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.
Rob Roberge
#4. What's more, any memoirs by eyewitnesses are a treasure, no matter who the eyewitness happens to be. Don't you think so?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well ... yesterday's news.
Harvey Fierstein
#6. This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
Harry S. Truman
#7. The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.
Paul Theroux
#8. There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
J.K. Rowling
#9. It has been said that crowds are stupid, but mostly they are simply confused, since as an eyewitness the average person is as reliable as a meringue lifejacket. It
Terry Pratchett
#10. Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.
Doug Stanhope
#11. Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Mark Twain
#12. I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.
Richard Neutra
#13. When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Jeffrey Kluger
#14. An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
Dieter Roth
#15. It is in the instinctual interpretation of voice and personality that we form our judgments of others. Nothing beats that. Not fingerprints, not DNA, not the pointed finger of an eyewitness.
Michael Connelly
#16. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Chris French
#17. I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.
Friedrich Kellner
#18. I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.
Terry Hayes
#19. My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline ... Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation
so there.
David Sedaris
#20. Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
John Shelby Spong
#21. If you send more than one news van to cover Dancing with the Stars, then you have to change your name from Eyewitness News to Guess What, You Guys?
Bill Maher
#22. Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham
#23. Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
Rhys Darby
#24. Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.
Marie Corelli
#25. I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
Jean Shepherd
#27. He'd been kissing Laurent and that should not be interrupted. His eyes returned warmly, possessively to their object: Laurent looked like any young
man who has been pressed against a battlement and kissed. The slight disturbance of the hair at Laurent's nape was wonderful.
C.S. Pacat
#29. The most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
Erik Larson
#30. When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.
Emma Roberts
#31. Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#32. The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith
#33. Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
Adam Smith
#34. At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.
Eric Balfour
#35. I read: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
I started to cry.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. Sarcasm is my sacred totem animal. I swear I wouldn't survive without it.
Anonymous
#37. I've been reading your thesis over again. And again I just truly wonder at your brilliance. Honestly dear, it shows many, many house of hard work, but even more it shows intelligent correlations, new research, and conclusions. I'm enjoying it so much. (Alice to Joe)
Martha Holoubek Fitzgerald
#38. Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
Toni Collette
#40. Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.
John McCain
