Pinkerton's Quotes

#1. Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent

Oscar Wilde

#2. Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.

Jane Lotter

#3. My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

Nate Ruess

#4. The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

Brian Pinkerton

#5. God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Xenophanes

#6. Librarians are notorious snitches - don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

Tom Upton

#7. Fair evening, Lady Pinkerton. I hope you enjoy satisfyingly deep breaths during your ride home." Part mortified, part despicably impressed, Catherine marched up the last step and slammed the carriage door shut.

Marissa Meyer

#8. One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.

Marissa Meyer

#9. Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.

Frans De Waal

#10. I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his glory.

Tracie Miles

#11. Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Anthony Horowitz

#12. I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

Rivers Cuomo

#13. Spontaneous evil has its way, when the soul is fast asleep in the safety of regular moments.

Brian Krogstad

#14. Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

Brian Pinkerton

#15. I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#16. He may be the one dressed like a fool, but it seemed the title was reserved for her.

Marissa Meyer

#17. She has a job where she is around swarms of people all day long, and she's still lonely. He

Brian Pinkerton

#18. Enjoy life by embracing the sadness as well as the happiness. It's all a part of being on this earth."
~ Mrs. Pinkerton

Michelle Stevens

#19. I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

Jane Jensen

#20. I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

Wayne Rooney

#21. I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Brian Pinkerton

#22. I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Brian Pinkerton

#23. The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can notify me through my web site, and I'll send them an original page. They can see my creative process in all its scribbly glory.

Brian Pinkerton

#24. A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

Allan Pinkerton

#25. One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad

Marissa Meyer

#26. Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

H.L. Mencken

#27. Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

Allan Pinkerton

#28. pilaster, probably meant to anchor a

Anthony Doerr

#29. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton

#30. The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

Brian Pinkerton

#31. They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#32. I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.

Brian Pinkerton

#33. I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Brian Pinkerton