Quotes About The Murder

#1. The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The "death play" of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels.

Richard J. Borden

#2. Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.

Andrew Barrett

#3. And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...

Rebekka Kricheldorf

#4. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#5. There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Justine Larbalestier

#7. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

James Joyce

#8. The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

Cesare Beccaria

#9. You're sure you didn't leave? Didn't try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don't know, dismember some poor jogger?

Kendare Blake

#10. A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#11. Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.

Dee Brown

#12. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Jennifer Birkett

#13. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.

Andrew Barrett

#14. The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Bill James

#15. We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#16. I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.

Georgette Heyer

#17. Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Gregory McDonald

#18. Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty.

J. Sidna Allen

#19. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#20. Between the atheism and the lesbian thing, Lily was a terrible Catholic. Even before she'd added murder to her list of sins.

Robin Talley

#21. There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

Charlaine Harris

#22. Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

Jason Jack Miller

#23. One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.

Linda Evangelista

#24. In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he wanted to live. But, at that point, death was inevitable and nothing that had happened could be changed.

Stephen Craig

#25. The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

Saint Basil

#26. I'm suddenly not hungry," Shane, said, his face ashen. "Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Don't step in the blood.

Andrea Heltsley

#27. In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#28. One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Mary MacLane

#29. Though it isn't obvious from the bowdlerized versions in Walt Disney , the tales are filled with murder,infanticide,cannibalism, mutilation, and sexual abuse - grimm fairy tales indeed.

Steven Pinker

#30. The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. Haha! Jokes on you, dummies ... I'm not really a lawyer.

Tina Fey

#31. An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

Ingrid

#32. I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

Gordon Brown

#33. Not all murder is evil ...
In the right time, the right place, for the right reason
it can be a blessing more profound than any you can imagine

J. Michael Straczynski

#34. My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.

Margaret Cho

#35. But I rather thought
I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair."
"I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Joanne Harris

#36. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#37. 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Ian Anthony Dale

#38. We do not repay mercy with murder. Kindness grows kindness, and you will reap the harvest of whatever seeds you sow.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval's instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law's tongue (said to induce peace and harmony in your household), or the gonads of your cheating husband (a savory dish to add spice to your lovemaking).

Sandra Ramos O'Briant

#40. The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.

Sigmund Freud

#41. This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder."
"I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him."
"I meant it the other way."
"Oh.

Gary Paulsen

#42. No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#43. Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Bruce Froemming

#44. Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.

Deepak Chopra

#45. New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is
murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit.

Bill Maher

#46. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill

H.A. Corby

#47. Yes. Eden, I fell in love with you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. But you fell in love with somebody else. And he gets to marry you. And then probably murder you. But you'd still rather be with him than with me,

Rachel Higginson

#48. After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

Chris Womersley

#49. I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

Adolf Eichmann

#50. The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.

Wes Craven

#51. I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.

Louis MacNeice

#52. Access to the public library should be a basic human right.

Kaitlyn Dunnett

#53. The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that
people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may
or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably
be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man.

G.K. Chesterton

#54. I am going to be murdered.
It wasn't any easier to face in the daytime.

Kendall Kulper

#55. 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

#56. I won't let ignorance murder the people I love.

Melissa West

#57. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

Eden Robinson

#58. The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.

Paul Quarrington

#59. I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Agatha Christie

#60. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

#61. I scream at the top of my lungs. I scream bloody murder. I scream with years of pent up fury. But no sound leaves my chest. It's like I have forgotten how to speak.

Loretta Lost

#62. Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

Rae Foley

#63. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters

R.J. Peters

#64. For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

Ken Page

#65. Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

Shaun Jeffrey

#66. Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

Agatha Christie

#67. Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#68. So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

Jackie Cooper

#69. If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Cyprian

#70. The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.

Jeannie Walker

#71. Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.

Jean Baudrillard

#72. One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.

Simon Winchester

#73. The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Alex Cox

#74. We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

Wendy Kaminer

#75. Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

Ellis Peters

#76. I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

Eric Rudolph

#77. It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

Ashwin Sanghi

#78. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

Chuck Palahniuk

#79. Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.

Michael Grant

#80. Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.

Rick Yancey

#81. Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition,

David Buss

#82. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#83. Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#84. The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

Weegee

#85. I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

Alan Furst

#86. He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

Takayuki Yamaguchi

#87. A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As

Nelson DeMille

#88. Winner goes with the flow, History Maker against the flow

Kjiva

#89. Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

Clive Barker

#90. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

Joel Sternfeld

#91. Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#92. I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

David Wojnarowicz

#93. Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of murderous martyrdom, in which the individual martyr simultaneously commits suicide and kills others for religious reasons.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#94. Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not do no murder.

John Steinbeck

#95. What is it the Bible teaches us? - repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine

#96. Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park

Jill Yesko

#97. The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

Andrew J. Robinson

#98. I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, There's been a murder. I don't know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.

Andrea Heltsley

#99. All major religions have rules against murder. If they didn't, there would be few converts. Well, at least few converts that you'd want to be in the same room with. But that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of people willing to kill in the name of their faith - that's true of most religions.

Rysa Walker

#100. Pavel. The pale man. The vampire. We talked. He didn't murder me horribly, no thanks to you. You were chasing after children at the time. - Abigail, to Jackaby

William Ritter