Top 100 Quotes About Killers: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Killers

#1. Being really good at something you shouldn't be doing doesn't make it any better," Mom said.
"It's a history class," I said, "and serial killers are a part of history. So are wars and racism and genocide. I guess I forgot to sign up for the 'happy stuff only' history class, sorry about that.

Dan Wells

#2. I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Colm Feore

#3. The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Jim Rohn

#4. However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.

Bill Shuster

#5. The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#6. Slogans about smoking: Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Craig Johnson

#7. Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters, that no member of their community could hide such dark desires. Once upon a time, she'd lived in one.
And the monster there had ripped her life apart.

Elizabeth Heiter

#8. Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

Libba Bray

#9. For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Mark Lynas

#10. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller

#11. Even killers need holiday.

Kenneth Eade

#12. I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

Benicio Del Toro

#13. Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers
a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others
are also shared by politicians and world leaders.

Kevin Dutton

#14. Where else can bubble-gum hearts, the dream travellers, the serial killers, and the occasional guest-star from beyond the grave occupy the same space?

Clive Barker

#15. Killers don't have to make sense.

Victoria Aveyard

#16. The only thing worse than a liar is a betrayer. Both are killers, for they kill both truth and trust.

Dennis Gleason

#17. I fool myself into thinking killers have a conscience. Some might. But not all.

A J Betts

#18. After the Germans and Austrians, the Rumanians were the biggest killers of Jews. They were more inclined to inflict beatings and torture, or to rape, the officers being worse than the men since they selected the prettiest Jewish girls for orgies.

Paul Johnson

#19. Our intuitions fail us. We rightly associate the Holocaust with Nazi ideology, but forget that many of the killers were not Nazis or even Germans. We think first of German Jews, although almost all of the Jews killed in the Holocaust lived beyond Germany. We

Timothy Snyder

#20. You're still riding home with me right? He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?

Lauren Barnholdt

#21. If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Albert Brooks

#22. Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

Marilyn Johnson

#23. I'm quite the humorist, for a woman who hires killers.

Joe Abercrombie

#24. I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#25. One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Sarah Vowell

#26. Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

George W. Bush

#27. Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Pat Brown

#28. My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Tupac Shakur

#29. The American police had shot another child for being black and outside, and the child had died, there on the pavement in the company of his killers.

Sarah Moss

#30. Get off me," Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew's hands off him in disgust. "I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because - I don't reckon my dad would've wanted them to become killers - just for you.

J.K. Rowling

#31. I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Ralph Fiennes

#32. Pulaski said, "Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it's not related to the case.

Jeffery Deaver

#33. There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

Pat Brown

#34. My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

Richard Kuklinski

#35. They are so good they can get serial killers before they even get started.

Marshall Thornton

#36. It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#37. We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Robert Ardrey

#38. Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

James D. Watson

#39. Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

Patrick J. Buchanan

#40. Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers

Darynda Jones

#41. In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder ... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure ... Some killers enjoy the kill ... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

Amanda Quick

#42. Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Brent Weeks

#43. I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Karin Slaughter

#44. Serial killers often kept souvenirs of their kills, and body parts were a pretty typical choice.

Dan Wells

#45. The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

Keith Preston

#46. It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Nicolas Cage

#47. Maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.

Chelsea Cain

#48. The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Nick Clooney

#49. Who the hell would attack the Steel Horse anyway? What was the thinking behind that? Here is a bar full of psychotic killers who grow giant claws and people who pilot the undead for a living. I think I'll go wreck the place.

Ilona Andrews

#50. In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

#51. Itinerant killers of basilisks; travelling slayers of dragons and vodniks!

Andrzej Sapkowski

#52. Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

Pat Brown

#53. In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

Eminem

#54. Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers," Ruth said.
"Into what?" Ezekiel asked.

Peter Tieryas

#55. I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly ... Real killers ... no matter the industry or company geography

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#56. It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.

Robert A. Norman

#57. Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers.

Aaron Allston

#58. There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

David Baldacci

#59. Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

Ted Rall

#60. Children. Pay close attention to them. They grow up to be adults. The really heinous people we see on the news? The serial killers, murderers, rapists, and complete ass-hats of society? Yeah, they were children once. And no one paid attention.

Scott Hildreth

#61. Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

Pablo Neruda

#62. Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Bryant McGill

#63. [T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

Gene Doucette

#64. In the movies, killers are omnipotent.

Harlan Coben

#65. Your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men are killers and
your worst men are
selling them
bullets

Charles Bukowski

#66. Roarke wondered if she thought of how many more would be hers - victims and killers. And knew, as he knew her, she did.

J.D. Robb

#67. One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

James Purefoy

#68. This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#69. I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

Paula Hawkins

#70. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#71. They hate women," Moore said. "Serial killers are the zenith of misogyny." "No, Mr. Moore, that would be the invention of the corset,

Madeline Ashby

#72. The Swords were the city's peacekeepers, something illsuited to Kaylin; the Wolves were its hunters, and often, its killers. And the Hawks? The city's eyes. Ears. The people who actually solved crimes.

Michelle Sagara

#73. Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.

Kevin Hearne

#74. T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.

Michael Punke

#75. He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.

'The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

A. Ashley Straker

#76. She thinks how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims. What if the world forgot Hitler and remembered all the names of his victims? What is we immortalized the victims?

Rene Denfeld

#77. Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

Ruta Sepetys

#78. I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

Tom Araya

#79. If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Elie Wiesel

#80. It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

Danny Glover

#81. Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.

Matthew Scully

#82. We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Clarence Darrow

#83. Who has a hedge maze in a residential neighborhood? ... serial killers presumably, people who enjoy Steven King novels a bit too much, and people that are hoping one night they will wake up to find David Bowie standing at their window.

Seanan McGuire

#84. The successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the garden-variety killers who applied so far have had no chance of success, especially those who are already behind bars.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#85. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

Neal Stephenson

#86. Famous murderers are only famous because they get caught. The best killers are those whose names we shall never know.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#87. I reached my hand out and held it palm open next to hers, and after a moments hesitation she took my hand and squeezed it. I felt absurdly happy.
We were a couple of badass monster killers all right. Maybe on the way back to Choo's she'd let me buy her an ice cream cone.

Elliott James

#88. Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Stephan Pastis

#89. Any fool can stick a blade into another's belly. The school's role is to find the leaders of men, not the killers of men. So the point, you silly little children, is not to kill, but to conquer.

Pierce Brown

#90. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Lev Grossman

#91. A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.

Jeb Bush

#92. Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

Mike Tyson

#93. In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.

Pierce Brown

#94. Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

Rafael Yglesias