Quotes About Serial

#1. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Tayari Jones

#2. That we're not dealing with your ordinary serial killer. More the Twilight kind. And this one isn't a vegetarian.

Leanna Ellis

#3. If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

Zach Braff

#4. One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market.

Tim Leberecht

#6. But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer"
"I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

John Grisham

#8. I carried it too far, thats for sure.

Jeffrey Dahmer

#9. I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107

Meg Cabot

#10. I'm currently between assignments and was looking for a change. I heard there was work in Nashville and it seemed like a good place to start over. So here I am stuck in the freezing cold with a ... serial killer. Has the making for a great horror movie, huh? (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. I was born with the devil in me ...

H. H. Holmes

#12. I think,' I said, watching his face for a reaction, 'that fate wants me to become a serial killer,'
He raised an eyebrow; nothing more. I told you he was calm.

Dan Wells

#13. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

Tim Field

#14. That boy needs a hobby."
"Stalking is a hobby."
"So is serial killing.

Darynda Jones

#15. Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

Marc Blucas

#16. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.

Dan Wells

#17. When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

Krysten Ritter

#18. There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

Pearl White

#19. Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!

Kim Harrison

#20. Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Pat Brown

#21. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

Jeanette Winterson

#22. This is the part of the horror film where you yell at the girl on the screen,'Don't *go*. You idiot! Don't go! Why are they always so stupid?' Cam *told* her mom he could be a serial killer.

Wendy Wunder

#23. Begum Para, did I say? Not the Begum Para? The saucy heroine of the silver screen? And why not? This remarkable lady had dropped in from Pakistan to play the part of my grandmother in Shubhadarshini's serial Ek Tha Rusty, based on stores of my childhood.

Ruskin Bond

#24. Catching an STD doesn't excuse serial killing.

Kat Lowe

#25. I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Martha Plimpton

#26. I like children they are tasty.

Albert Fish

#27. For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

Andrea Seigel

#28. No wonder serial killers liked to chop up women," Julia said. "They seem so much better when they're just bits and pieces.

Ainslie Hogarth

#29. Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. -Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy

#30. I always enjoyed the meticulous planning of every kill and of course the large payday that follow. It all became an exuberant game, and I couldn't stop...

Mary Burton King

#31. Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Bryan Batt

#32. Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Alan Moore

#33. Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Anthony Jeselnik

#34. If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Seth Godin

#35. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

Blake Butler

#36. My first husband was a serial cheater.

Caroline Leavitt

#37. Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.
Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.

Katie McGarry

#38. We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.

John Connolly

#39. I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model.

Lori Lesko

#40. Same way a serial killer chooses his weapons, only Aaron was the serial killer of souls.

Mary Ann D'Alto

#41. In Ted Bundy's defense," I string together four words I never thought I'd utter in all of my life, "I don't think anyone ever asked him if he was a serial killer. You know, not when they were first getting friendly with him.

Winter Renshaw

#42. Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

Nick Offerman

#43. They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

Jennifer Lopez

#44. I'm so good at my job the law thinks I'm three different hit men and a serial killer. I speak Russian and French, I never had a pet, and the reason why you hate my coffee is that it's decaf.

J. Fally

#45. You can write about relationships all you want. Get as personal as you want. Your serial dating days are over, Ms. Greene. From here on out, anything related to your personal relationships better be about me.

Lauren Layne

#46. Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Luc Ferrari

#47. A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

Scott Adams

#48. When it's time to settle into the serial monogamy inherent in writing a book (although, between you and me, I secretly practice biblio-polygamy - I can't help myself),

Cathleen Rountree

#49. Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around.

Carl Panzram

#50. Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

Pat Brown

#51. I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

David Fincher

#52. A serial killer's modus operandi could evolve over time, but rarely would he change his signature, an act that often had nothing to do with the way the victim actually died but had more to do with fulfilling some kind of need the killer had.

Virna DePaul

#53. I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

Michael Connelly

#54. So, how'd you know about this place?"
"One of my buddies is from Baltimore area - I texted him."
"Saying what? 'Hey dude, know any secluded places?' He probably thinks you're a serial killer."
"I think I said 'romantic and private'.

Emery Lord

#55. The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Jacque Fresco

#56. I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music."
He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be ... messy."
"That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you - I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.

Sarah Mayberry

#57. Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Pat Brown

#58. Mall maintenance halls are creepy. Plain and white, with fluorescent lighting, they evoke images of serial killers, hockey masks nd bloody butcher knives. The figure standing at the end does not help matters.

Suzanna J. Linton

#59. The fact that a child that age was allowed to go out looking for the four-legged serial killer that the king has dispatched his personal gun-bearer to track down speaks of an older, hands-off parenting style.

Sarah Vowell

#60. The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Elizabeth Heiter

#61. The FBI had once estimated there were approximately two-hundred and fifty serial killers active in the US at any one time. Alex's job was whittling that number down, one murderous asshole at a time.

Toni Anderson

#62. Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder.

Anais Torres

#63. The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

Pat Brown

#64. A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.

David Berkowitz

#65. I don't know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who've perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well as my mother has.

Adrianne Brooks

#66. Some stories don't make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers ... sure. But there's some feelings you can't put on a screen.

Damon Suede

#67. If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

George Carlin

#68. I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

Tamsin Egerton

#69. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#70. He's convinced that you're a psycho," I explained, as I reached the bench. "He has the list narrowed down to either a double agent or a serial killer.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#71. Also, the killing of small animals is the entrance ramp onto the serial killer superhighway. Damn. I bet the cat knows that. He picked me because I can't hurt him, or I'd be fulfilling my biological destiny. So I'm screwed. The cat stays. Unless you'll kill him ... How does fifty bucks sound?

Kelley Armstrong

#72. 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

#73. Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again ...

Chelsea Cain

#74. As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home was different from that in the homes of others ... This stimulated me to introspection and strange mental questionings.

John George Haigh

#75. You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.

Richard Ramirez

#76. It doesn't escape him that the rock holding it up is the perfect fit for his fist. Or how easily one of those needle spokes would slide right through the girl's eye like Jell-O.

Lauren Beukes

#77. It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

Shelly Crane

#78. I gave up love and happiness a long time ago.

Richard Ramirez

#79. For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.

Lucy Corin

#80. I love these alternative schools! No one hassles me here over being a crazed, notorious serial killer!

Spike Chunsoft

#81. When you work hard to do something right, you don't want to forget it.

Ted Bundy

#82. The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

Milan Kundera

#83. I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate.

Jeffrey Dahmer

#84. How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Johnny Depp

#85. Serial killer aren't creative."
"Watch a little Dexter and get back to me on that.

Cath Crowley

#86. For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#87. Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

Kool Moe Dee

#88. In this hole lives the wicked king.

David Berkowitz

#89. We also told her you weren't a serial killer," Brit interjected.
Cam nodded. "That's a glowing recommendation. Hey, at least he's not a serial killer. I'm going to put that on my Facebook profile.

J. Lynn

#90. If "fine" were sporting a serial-killer glare, then she'd hate to see what "not fine" was.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#91. I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them

Carl Panzram

#92. My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder.

John Christie

#93. Don't get me wrong - he's hot as hell, and in another life I would have liked to wear him as a mink coat. But when your first thought about someone is wondering whether they're some sort of handsome woodland serial killer, it's hard to build an attraction.

Karsten Knight

#94. Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Laura Wade

#95. He should have recognized that what really fascinated him was the hunt, the adventure of searching out his victims. And, to a degree, possessing them physically, as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.

Ted Bundy

#96. The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

Alison Pill

#97. I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

Danica McKellar

#98. If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It's great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.

James W. Pennebaker

#99. I read a lot about serial killers.

Jamie Dornan

#100. Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.

Kouhei Kadono