Women Sleuth Quotes

#1. English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Malcolm Bradbury

#2. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#3. You're a nosy sleuth like me because you can't help it, Alma said.

Ed Lynskey

#4. That could be a very sexy story.

LynDee Walker

#5. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

Ann Landers

#6. 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

Manny Farber

#7. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them

Renita D'Silva

#8. Practical theology is the need to interpret the "where" of Jesus Christ in our experiences of the now.

Andrew Root

#9. Even in death, her mother was winning.

Noorilhuda

#10. I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Noorilhuda

#12. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?

Nancy Lynn Jarvis

#13. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Noorilhuda

#14. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

C.S. Lewis

#15. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

Noorilhuda

#16. I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

Oscar Nunez

#17. To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

John Darnielle

#18. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Noorilhuda

#19. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#20. You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

Alice Hoffman

#21. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#22. The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

Raymond E. Feist

#23. If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

Noorilhuda

#24. He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Publilius Syrus

#25. Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

Mother Teresa

#26. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda