Quotes About Reporting Crime

#1. Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

Justin Alcala

#3. Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate

Patricia Cornwell

#4. Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Robert Fanney

#5. Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.

Catherine Crier

#6. I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

Michael Robotham

#7. I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

Katia Winter

#8. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Max Beerbohm

#9. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.

Robert Lacey

#10. The last thing you'd want is to look like you're one straight jacket shy of a psych ward -

Belinda Boring

#11. Everything you know and can do, is for a reason and at some point your whole life will make sense.

E.L. Randolph

#12. Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Rene Descartes

#13. Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

Amit Ray

#14. People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.

Charlie Ergen

#15. Personally? I think there's more going on around us than we realize. I think God uses even the bad and ugly things in this world to lead us to a good place.

Max Lucado

#16. Freeman murmured at his elbow, "Let him go. I'm working on an even bigger nuclear rocket, called Orion. We might take a cruise out to Saturn on it by the 1980s or

Gregory Benford

#17. My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

#18. Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

Morris West

#19. In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.

Hank Phillippi Ryan