Top 100 Quotes About Dexter
#1. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.
Pete Dexter
#2. But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out by the noise of our beating hearts, screaming at us that we were, after all, creatures of flesh and blood.
Dexter Palmer
#3. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
Alice Lowe
#4. If you can't play the blues ... you might as well hang it up.
Dexter Gordon
#5. Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.
But I know I can fix this. I can do it.
Dexter Palmer
#6. Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really, I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#7. Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.
Dexter Darden
#9. Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary
Colin Dexter
#10. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#11. As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
Dexter Fletcher
#12. And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
Jeff Lindsay
#13. A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.
Pete Dexter
#14. I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.
Colin Dexter
#15. I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
Dexter Holland
#16. During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.
Colin Dexter
#17. He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.
Pete Dexter
#18. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.
Catherine Astolfo
#19. We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.
Dexter Palmer
#20. I see Ethan Dexter; he shines for me. And I burn hotter than the sun when I'm in his orbit.
Kristen Callihan
#21. There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.
Pete Dexter
#22. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.
Dexter Palmer
#23. It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.
Jeff Lindsay
#25. There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
Michael C. Hall
#26. If you can't explain it better leave it... (Dexter Season 2....)
Deyth Banger
#27. I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.
Dexter Darden
#28. And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.
Dexter Palmer
#29. You can use my phone, if you'll pay the roaming charges," I said.
"I need a land line," he said "A pay phone."
"You're out of touch with the times," I said. "A pay phone might be a little hard to find. Nobody uses them anymore.
Jeff Lindsay
#30. You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.
David Zayas
#31. The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.
Dexter Filkins
#32. Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.
Brea Grant
#33. My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
Dexter Fletcher
#34. And the justice in this world is that you don't have to break legs because somebody's broken yours.
Pete Dexter
#35. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.
David Nicholls
#36. I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.
Jeff Lindsay
#37. I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
Sarah Dessen
#38. Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you have that there was ever any time is a few scribbled words and a few blurred pictures. Then those burn in fire or blow away in wind and you have nothing.
Dexter Palmer
#39. I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
Dexter Fletcher
#40. And once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
David Nicholls
#41. I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
Jeff Lindsay
#42. As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.
Dexter Palmer
#44. It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.Oh, Dexter, a savage inhuman monster has taken my boyfriend! Well damn it, I'm a savage inhuman monster, too - didn't that entitle me to some rest?
Jeff Lindsay
#45. After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
Jeff Lindsay
#46. I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.
Dexter Palmer
#48. To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
Dexter Gordon
#49. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
Dexter Hawk
#50. I thought about getting out and looking for some kind of clue, until I realized how silly that was. Did I think I was Tonto, faithful Indian guide? I couldn't look at a bent twig and tell how many white men had been past in the last hour.
Jeff Lindsay
#51. There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.
Dexter Palmer
#52. 'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
Jeff Lindsay
#53. What's the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it's for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I'm impressed. Since we're not in Miami and you haven't a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self.
Jeff Lindsay
#55. My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'
Manny Coto
#57. I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces.
Jeff Lindsay
#58. Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.
Deyth Banger
#59. Sometimes goes easier... others... goes wrong. But that's world!
(Dexter)
Deyth Banger
#60. You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill ... "
"I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born."
"Yes, who was emperor back then?
David Nicholls
#61. But it's different for a girl, and Astor is at the age- It's not too dry, is it?" She said, frowning at my plate.
"It's perfect," I said.
"It is dry; I'm sorry. So I thought maybe if you would talk to her," Rita finished. I truly hoped she meant talk to Astor and not the pork chop.
Jeff Lindsay
#62. I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'
Erik King
#63. Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.
Jeff Lindsay
#65. In fact, although I am not aware of it (and I am never aware of it, no matter how many times I have the dream) her suicide is a foregone conclusion. It is this way in dreams: when decisions are being made, they have already been made.
Dexter Palmer
#66. With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.
Melissa Rosenberg
#67. What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
Dexter Scott King
#68. Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.
Dexter Palmer
#69. I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
Dexter Fletcher
#70. 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.
Roald Dahl
#71. Serial killer aren't creative."
"Watch a little Dexter and get back to me on that.
Cath Crowley
#72. Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.
Dexter Palmer
#73. 'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.
Dexter Fletcher
#74. Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones.
Dexter Palmer
#75. Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.
Dexter Palmer
#76. It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.
Dexter Gordon
#77. I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
Brea Grant
#78. Is that why you're crying?"
( ... ) "It's just hormones," she said. "I didn't want anyone to see."
I skipped over the image of anyone seeing her hormones and tried to focus on the heart of the matter.
Jeff Lindsay
#79. There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus.
Deyth Banger
#80. But I'm not saying that falsifiability makes science better; I'm saying it makes science good.
Dexter Palmer
#81. Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
Colin Dexter
#82. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.
Dexter Palmer
#83. He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.
Colin Dexter
#84. I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!
Bipasha Basu
#85. All we can do in life is play along and hope that we get it right.
Robin Dexter
#86. You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that ... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'
Dexter Holland
#87. I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett
#88. What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
Dexter Gordon
#89. Removing memories is difficult.... changing is easy...
- Dexter
Deyth Banger
#90. There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse
Colin Dexter
#91. I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in the water than the women who disliked them.
Pete Dexter
#92. A lot of [people] have regular hours they're at work, and they sell their time for the money that lets them make the most of the time they have left over.
Dexter Palmer
#93. And so Rebecca consigned herself to, not ignorance, but a judicious incuriosity: she decided, for the time being, to live with the constant, cryptic reminders that the scope of another person's soul could never be fully surveyed.
Dexter Palmer
#94. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.
Derek Landy
#95. Sometimes," he said, "you've got to watch people a long time to see who they are.
Pete Dexter
#96. It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.
Dexter Palmer
#97. You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!
David Ramsey
#98. Now I know the truth. Ethan's love won't fix me. I have to do that myself. So, no, his love isn't the cure. But it is something to live for. Without him, I might not want to fix myself. Ethan Dexter makes me want to be a better person. To be brave.
Kristen Callihan
#99. He hands me his shopping list and I lead him through the store in search of the items. Duct tape? Plastic wrap? A hacksaw? Who is this guy, Dexter?
Andrew Shaffer
#100. Close and Close... and close and close and close cases - Very Helpful - THat's "Now" - Dexter.
Deyth Banger
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