Forensic Quotes

#1. Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Louis Stokes

#2. Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her.

Patricia Briggs

#3. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.

John Grisham

#4. I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.

C.J. Box

#5. Forensic auditing: These auditors sniff out fraud and other crimes. Forensic means "of the law," and forensic auditors often discover information that's used as litigation support - to help attorneys make their cases.

Maire Loughran

#6. [D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic epidemiologist and a floorwalker in men's hosiery-look at how those size l0-to-13's drape over their tiny 2-shaped hangers...

Evan Dara

#7. I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

Tony Revolori

#8. You know you really don't need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.

Aaron Sorkin

#9. I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Isabel Allende

#10. I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

Carmine Giovinazzo

#11. Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#12. I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

Emun Elliott

#13. If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

Kathy Reichs

#14. In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

Denise Mina

#15. In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

Sara Sheridan

#16. Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology.
Snappy dresser, though.

Kathy Reichs

#17. Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

Jim Stanford

#18. The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Val McDermid

#19. I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

Clint Eastwood

#20. In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

Pat Brown

#21. Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Jeffery Deaver

#22. The long, forensic interview really matters.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#23. Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

#24. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Chip Heath

#25. I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

Ross Bleckner

#26. All the medical examiners in the state of Florida are forensic pathologists with medical degrees.

William R. Maples

#27. Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Hill Harper

#29. I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

Octavia Spencer

#30. We've got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scenes be so clean?

Chris Carter

#31. It focuses on the need for comprehensive assessment and describes in detail the theory, processes, and instrumentation of forensic risk assessment,

Phil Rich

#32. There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data ... They don't want their industry publicised.

Heather Brooke

#33. can a criminal, using the knowledge of forensic science to his own advantage, reduce his percentage of detection in order to commit the perfect murder? If a criminal knew exactly what investigators were looking for at a crime scene, could they use that to avoid detection?

David Elio Malocco

#34. When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

Rhys Ifans

#35. I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

Bex Taylor-Klaus

#36. We have forensic psychiatrists who try to draw a line between those who are sick and those who are criminal, and they bend and twist the truth to make it fit into their world of theoretical models.

Jo Nesbo

#37. I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Patricia Cornwell

#38. With the willingness of Time-Life and a team of historians, forensic anthropologists, photographic experts, and cutting edge technology, the means are at hand to recognize the participants in Alfred Eisenstaedt's beloved photograph.

Lawrence Verria

#39. Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie Princess, not a forensic analyst." I

Jim Butcher

#40. I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

Caitlin Kittredge

#41. 'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

Cory Michael Smith

#42. The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Ramsey Clark

#43. I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

Tamala Jones

#44. The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Marcus Tullius Cicero