Murder Investigation Quotes

#1. Dalgliesh reflected that one of the minor hazards of a murder investigation was the inordinate amount of caffeine he was expected to consume. But he wanted the interview to be as informal as possible, and food or drink always helped.

P.D. James

#2. [A murder investigation] is a system which involves an enormous amount of work for a large number of people, and has only got one thing in its favor. It is nearly always successful in the end.

Michael Gilbert

#3. Naomi Misora, are you familiar with the murder investigation going in Los Angeles as we speak?"
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"I am not so skilled that I can keep track of all the murder investigations happening in Los Angeles."
"Oh? I am."
He'd returned her sarcasm with a boast.

NisiOisiN

#4. As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

Mark Billingham

#5. Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

Rajneesh

#6. The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene's excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!

Hunter Murphy

#7. The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Rudyard Kipling

#8. People's expectations of us are almost always who we become.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

Michelle Shocked

#10. How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. I think of the feel of water. The way it is when you wade into the ocean and a small wave cascades against you, swirling sand over you and awakening every pore.

Jessica Park

#12. Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

Jeremy Taylor

#13. When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

Keith Green

#15. Have you seen The Man Who Fell to Earth?" Charlie's face was hot, his asthma tightening his throat. "I realize that maybe sounds like a metaphor, but you listen to David Bowie, he's thinking about what people will face in the future.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#16. As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.

NisiOisiN

#17. Who cared what gods a person called on to fortify their spirit? Why was it the business of one to dictate the worship of another and why should leaders insist upon only one faith?

Katrina Rasbold

#18. I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Jonas Salk

#19. Sure, I had been accused of murder by my family and was wrapped up in a bizarre investigation, but there were such cute boys involved. Hey, I try to look on the bright side.

Tamara Summers

#20. I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

Alicia Keys

#21. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Gennaro F. Vito