Strange Crime Quotes

#1. A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

Dan Chaon

#3. Like old time... wanna arm wrestle for her?

Catherine Vale

#4. You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

Yogi Berra

#5. A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

Odeya Rush

#6. There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

Israel Horovitz

#7. Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

David Hume

#8. I'd thought it strange, after the financial crisis, in which Goldman had played such an important role, that the only Goldman Sachs employee who had been charged with any sort of crime was the employee who had taken something from Goldman Sachs.

Michael Lewis

#9. I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#10. I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

Michael Jordan

#11. Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.

Bobbi Brown

#13. I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

David Coverdale

#14. I said, "I need to hear something that's going to save my life."
Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

Michael Chabon

#15. Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Caroline Mitchell

#16. Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, shall never find it more.

William Shakespeare

#17. How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

Alexandre Dumas

#18. Business and human endeavors are systems ... we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

Peter M. Senge

#19. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.

Tom Robbins

#20. That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Laurence J. Peter

#22. Life's unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web.

D.A. Pupa

#23. Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

Joe Abercrombie

#24. My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Dominic Monaghan

#25. I wouldn't believe you." "Why not?" "Because any man who has exclusive access to you would not be able to go a day without touching you.

Sarah MacLean

#26. I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

Stephen King

#27. What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

Rampo Edogawa