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Quotes About Clues

We are bound to the earth by fate, and by gravity, so we will have to plod along and follow what clues are available. I
~ David Niall Wilson
Of course, we can't ask them, because murder victims are notoriously tight-lipped.
~ David Rosenfelt
Detective Bone
~ David Walliams
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
~ Jean M. Auel
Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication
~ Jeanine Cummins
in Sherlock Holmes's day, the Trichinopoly cigar ash helped only if one of the suspects smoked Trichinopoly cigars.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
If you look closely enough, there are bloodstains.
~ Elizabeth Buchan
The old cobbler had believed in something he called the signature of all things-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The old cobbler had believed in something he called "the signature of all things"—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
the signature of all things"—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
TENTH • Each pair in attendance will now receive an envelope containing a set of clues. No two sets of clues are alike. It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.
~ Ellen Raskin
So far, so good, thought Maerad, wondering how she was to explain to these people why she had come so far north. Because of a dream, because of a few clues scoured here and there, from a half-mad old Pilanel woman and a wise goatherd in Thorold--what sense could they possibly make of what she told them?
~ Alison Croggon
He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.
~ Allan Folsom
Somebody knows.
~ Ally Carter
I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.
~ Ally Carter
They have eliminated Mrs Sullivan, Miss Henshaw and Mrs Philpott, for now at least
~ Alys Clare
Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
~ Pat Brown
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
~ Evan Hunter
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
~ Nathaniel Rich
The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.
~ Christian de Duve
Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.
~ Richard Siken
Here I am leaving you clues.
~ Richard Siken
Oh, I guess you wouldn't know, since you left the actual investigating for me to do. Well, buckle up, my friend, because I'm about to hand you actual clues to an actual crime, wrapped in a bow.
~ Rob Thomas Jennifer Graham