Top 100 Quotes About Serial
#1. I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so ... that's about it.
George Murray
#2. If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals.
Anonymous
#3. Who'd have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane?
Larissa Ione
#4. The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.
Joel Norris
#5. Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once ... twice ... sold to the drama queen at the corner.
P.C. Cast
#6. There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
Pat Brown
#8. Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
#9. 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
#10. Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
John Yoo
#11. There are questions that run through your head when you find out that you're a serial killer.
Charlie Human
#12. I've been practicing serial monogamy with one loser after another since I was eighteen. You can't deny I'm an asshole magnet.
Avery Flynn
#13. Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff."
"Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?"
"No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.
Howard Tayler
#14. And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.
Joe Cornish
#15. Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.
Dean Cavanagh
#16. When I first met you," Stellan said again, sleepily, "I thought you were an idiot. Who gets on a plane with a stranger who just pulled a knife on her?" he said. "What is wrong with you? I could have been a serial killer.
Maggie Hall
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.
Cheryl Strayed
#20. My friends tried to ignore my quirks since they didn't have a clue what to do about them. It didn't seem hard on them though. They were already trained to ignore their parents' alcohol abuse, constant bickering, serial marriages, and nonsensical advice.
Terry Spencer Hesser
#21. Thank you for meeting me. And for not being a serial killer." I laugh, and take his hand. "Agreed. I was actually planning on being a serial killer but decided against it. My day is kind of full. Meetings.
Alessandra Torre
#23. Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Pat Brown
#24. I pretended not to be surprised when she showed up at my sliding door last night. Between the dog and me? I thought she was either a super-dedicated UPS guy or a polite serial killer.
Jay Clark
#25. 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
#26. The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.
Frederick Lenz
#27. The full moon cast an eerie glow through thick ancient dark woods. In the shadows around a tree, the serial killer ran his knife lovingly over Chelsea's trussed dead body. She lay, as if posed for a photo, wearing only bloody pink underpants.
H. Raven Rose
#28. But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#29. Millions of years ago, the first lizard crawled out of the water and hit the second lizard over the head with a rock. Thus, the first serial killer was born.
Dexter
#30. There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Pat Brown
#31. My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.
Tim Cahill
#32. Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
Paul Guilfoyle
#33. They are so good they can get serial killers before they even get started.
Marshall Thornton
#34. If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.
GG Allin
#36. I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.
Mark Kozelek
#37. How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.
Jack Cavanaugh
#38. Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers
Darynda Jones
#39. Victims of violent crime are not always believed ...
[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
Natascha Kampusch
#40. It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
Nigel Rees
#41. I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
Karin Slaughter
#42. Serial killers often kept souvenirs of their kills, and body parts were a pretty typical choice.
Dan Wells
#43. Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
Tim Field
#44. 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
#46. Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
Pat Brown
#47. Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.
Caroline Kepnes
#48. If the name or shape weren't odd enough, the McRib has a strange "here today, gone tomorrow" existence. Like a serial deadbeat dad, the McRib arrives with great fanfare only to skip town without warning.
Jim Gaffigan
#49. If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.
James Purefoy
#50. You could have Charles Manson as a father and end up a saint; you could have Mother Theresa as a mother and end up a serial killer. At the end of the day, you define the person you become. Not a strand of DNA. Not the parents you didn't get to choose. You." I
Julie Johnson
#51. If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos.
Deyth Banger
#52. 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
#53. The ability to kill someone is basically a mental stance, and not a question of physical means; a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka.
Neal Stephenson
#54. In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
Emraan Hashmi
#55. His strut reminded her of a smiling serial killer, oh yeah, he'd kill you, but boy, he'd have lovely manners while he did it.
V. Theia
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.
Pat Buchanan
#61. The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Sol LeWitt
#62. Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.
Tim Field
#63. 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
#64. I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.
Chelsea Kane
#65. 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
#66. I wouldn't say I'm a serial monogamist ... I mean, I went through periods of time when I was, ah, single. But when I'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship.
Scarlett Johansson
#67. I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
Steve Earle
#68. Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied.
J. Lynn
#69. You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
Johnny Galecki
#70. For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-"
"I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?
Rachel Vincent
#71. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.
Tony Earley
#72. Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.
Scott Adams
#73. 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
#74. He would have been handsome - in a serial-killer kind of way - if not for those tattoos.
Gena Showalter
#75. In 1998, while serving two consecutive life sentences, Puente began corresponding with a writer named Shane Bugbee and sending him recipes which were subsequently published in a book called Cooking with a Serial Killer.
Call me crazy, but I wouldn't touch that food with a ten-foot pole.
Jodi Picoult
#76. The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.
Emraan Hashmi
#77. I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.
Daniel Radcliffe
#78. I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
Joyce Maynard
#79. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.
Neal Stephenson
#80. If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer.
Edward M. Wolfe
#81. When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.
Dylan McDermott
#82. Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Pat Brown
#83. It was too early for any of my friends to have come home.
Hell, it wasn't even nine yet, which meant it was probably also too early for a serial killer to pay a visit.
J. Lynn
#84. 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
#85. Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.
Jay Samit
#87. 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
#88. An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp
#89. The novel puts an ad in the personals:
Serial monogamist seeks same.
6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelit
tension, tasteful gore. Weakness:
occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long
walks on the beach to search for
bodies washing up on shore.
Erin Murphy
#90. I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.
Andrew-Lee Potts
#91. I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
Jonathan Lethem
#92. I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.
Natalie Dormer
#93. You know Karen, everybody thinks serial killers are ignorant, but we are actually extremely intelligent.
Mary Burton King
#94. I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#95. Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.
Johannes Stark
#96. Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.
Richard Ramirez
#97. You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
Gordon Strachan
#98. The worst part is, he's been extra sweet because he's trying to make everything okay again. If he weren't a serial killer, he'd be the perfect boyfriend
Kelly Oram
#99. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police. His
Margaret Atwood
#100. That's true. That's so true. Serial killers don't wear seersucker
Linda P. Kozar