Quotes About Jeffery

#1. The most surprising part of the 1985 Jeffery-Lawrence study appeared at the very end, when they investigated the productivity of 24 projects for which no estimates were prepared at all. These projects far outperformed all the others

Tom DeMarco

#2. You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

Joe Pesci

#3. I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

John Filo

#4. Don't be afraid to let go. You have people rooting for you who you can't even see. And if you come up short the first time, you've only lost the battle. You can still win the war, so go for it.
- Jeffery

Rob Buyea

#5. I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.

Andre Royo

#6. But they are murderers, madam! I am afraid of murderers!
(Jeffery, the footman in The Pirate Next Door)

Jennifer Ashley

#7. Sam seabury is a fresh new face on the International Market...Jeffery Marsh

Mike Sullivan

#8. If I do not go to a doctor then he cannot say I am dying," explained Jeffery. "I have not been dying for two years. If I had gone to a doc and he told me I am dying, then I would've been set low for these two years.

Denise O'Hara

#9. Stephen King is not a guy who keeps secrets the same goes and for Jeffery Deaver. But Jeffery Deaver creates characters and plays with them, Stephen King knows with who is playing, Jeffery Deaver just goes as how will happen, I think that and he doesn't know where the story lines will go.

Deyth Banger

#10. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
James Jeffery Roche

James McAllister

#11. Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jeffery Deaver

#12. Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

Jeffery Deaver

#13. Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

Jeffery Deaver

#14. Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.

Jeffery Deaver

#15. Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly.

Jeffery Deaver

#16. how do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose and go on. Usually there follows regret instead of reward, so you just choose again. In the end, you fade away.

Jeffery Brown

#17. The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents,

Jeffery Deaver

#18. They look like wounds, not tattoos.

Jeffery Deaver

#19. Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Jeffery Deaver

#20. The scars weren't overly red, but faded, some just light lines on my skin. Some of them I could cover with makeup, while others would never truly disappear. I felt like they completed me. A reflection of the way I felt inside.
Lo The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#21. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.

Jeffery Deaver

#22. Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

Michael Jeffery

#23. The air was thick and still, chilled. Water dripped somewhere, irregularly. Was the sun positioned perfectly to send ruddy rays of light through the swirling dust within, throwing their shadows long and stark across the floor? Of course it was.

Jeffery Russell

#24. His rules were unencumbered by my constraints - the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,

Jeffery Deaver

#25. And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.

Jeffery Deaver

#26. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

Jeffery Deaver

#27. Everything changed ... even the things we didn't want to.

Ashley Jeffery

#28. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. 'We spent one night together.'
'You had sex then?'
'No we crocheted a quilt.' I cocked my head to side and gave him my nastiest glare. Lorelei Preston to Agent Brody-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#29. Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.

Jeffery Russell

#30. Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Jeffery Deaver

#31. The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.

Jeffery Deaver

#32. The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

Jeffery Deaver

#33. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

Jeffery Deaver

#34. For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Jeffery Deaver

#35. We have to assume Loving's found your account. If you read messages or send any, it's possible for him to correlate time with router and server traffic in the area here.

Jeffery Deaver

#36. I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Jeffery Deaver

#37. I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

Jeffery Deaver

#38. As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I

Jeffery Deaver

#39. He attempted to bark the order and succeeded, albeit with more of a chihuahua result than intended.

Jeffery Russell

#40. little too undistinguished, a little

Jeffery Deaver

#41. Teapots are not generally known for their aerodynamic qualities, hence the proclivity for their use during breaks between fighting rather than as an actual weapon of war.

Jeffery Russell

#42. I said evenly, "Loving's low-tech. Usually he uses sandpaper and alcohol on sensitive parts of the body. Doesn't sound too bad but it works real well." I

Jeffery Deaver

#43. Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

#44. I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Jeffery Deaver

#45. The silence joined the words we always left unspoken. Circling around and around until I was sure, the quiet would slice me open.-Lo Preston-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#46. And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Jeffery Deaver

#47. That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Jeffery Deaver

#48. When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Jeffery Deaver

#49. The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

Jeffery Deaver

#50. The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals - humanised animals - triumphs of vivisection.

Jeffery Deaver

#51. Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed

Jeffery Deaver

#52. I will never get to tell him I love him, even if my love was never enough. The empty ache grows and throbs in my chest. It's a living and breathing thing inside me. Sucking the air from my lungs, and the warmth from my body. The ache and pain leaves me hollow and cold.

Ashley Jeffery

#53. Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...

Jeffery Deaver

#54. eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.

Jeffery Deaver

#55. I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

#56. Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

Jeffery Deaver

#57. The public service can continue to function regardless of its performance because it does not have to satisfy customers or produce a profit.

Anthea Jeffery

#58. You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.

Cynthia Hand

#59. What'd he do? Your stepfather?

Jeffery Deaver

#60. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#61. It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

Jeffery Deaver

#62. This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. - ARISTOTLE

Jeffery Deaver

#63. as old as we may be in flesh, we are always young in the bone

Jeffery Deaver

#64. You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother - you get the picture - reaming their - you get the rest of the picture.

Jeffery Deaver

#65. You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Jeffery Deaver

#66. Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice - even giving up one's life.

Jeffery Deaver

#67. Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Jeffery Deaver

#68. To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

Jeffery Deaver

#69. I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Jeffery Deaver

#70. But it works that way if it works.

Jeffery Deaver

#71. But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.

Jeffery Deaver

#72. People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

Jeffery Deaver

#73. Mind control aims to change a person to the very core by altering their decisions, perception, beliefs, values, behaviors and relationships.

Jeffery Dawson

#74. I suppose falling in love is finding that one person who can appreciate and understand why you want the things you want and do the things you do.

Jeffery Self

#75. Someone severed the link between my brain and my fingers.

Jason Jeffery

#76. A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart. Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#77. In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

Jeffery Deaver

#78. For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Michael Jeffery

#79. Time transcends morality

Jeffery Deaver

#80. In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.

Jeffery Farnol

#81. Chris Teasley came on. She said, "Um, Agent Corte." "Officer Corte," I corrected. My organization is an office, not a bureau or an agency. When Congress gave Abe the money that's what he created.

Jeffery Deaver

#82. You are either a pawn or a player. I am no one's tool. I am no one's pawn. I am a player. In the world of kill or be killed I'm a murderess. I will ripe out your throat with my bare hands and lick the blood from my fingers.-Lilith

Ashley Jeffery

#83. Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

Jeffery Deaver

#84. was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest

Jeffery Deaver

#85. Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face.

Jeffery Russell

#86. Sutter Laughed. You were just being honest. Maybe needed is the wrong word. Wanted. I want to be wanted. I want to be someone's air. I want to feel like my presence makes their life better, just by simply existing.

Ashley Jeffery

#87. Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.

Jeffery Deaver

#88. I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Jeffery Deaver

#89. Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside

Ashley Jeffery

#90. Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)

Jeffery Deaver

#91. William Gibson's novel Neuromancer,

Jeffery Deaver

#92. We don't have enough time to move fast

Jeffery Deaver

#93. She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Jeffery Deaver

#94. Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

Jeffery Taylor

#95. The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

Jeffery Taylor

#96. She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

Jeffery Deaver

#97. Islands - of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land

Jeffery Deaver

#98. Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

Ashley Jeffery

#99. We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

Jeffery Deaver

#100. In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Jeffery Deaver