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Quotes About Clues

Desire had turned me into a relentless hunter for clues, a romantic paranoiac, reading meaning into everything.
~ Alain de Botton
The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!
~ Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol
~ Uncle Barney.
Donald J. Sobol
~ longer than an
Jessica Fletcher
~ place, flaps
My gut saved me several times in the last few minutes. Now it's telling me something else. This body wasn't the only one in the lake.
~ Andrew Mayne
You could probably tell more from her discarded dental floss. At least I would know what she had for dinner, her dental health, and possibly the DNA of the last person she kissed.
~ Andrew Mayne
Because if it weren't a hopeless case, he wouldn't be waiting for me on my doorstep. I don't get the low-hanging fruit, the "It was the handyman with the criminal past" type of cases. I get the ones where there is no evidence. No clues. Not even a body. Just an empty place where a person used to be.
~ Andrew Mayne
I think a lot of people make a big misstep when they assume what an artist is going to be interested in, so I try to just take that out of the equation and make sure whenever I'm talking to people about their music, I'm getting all my context clues from that - and then we go to work.
~ Kenny Beats
Think of your early dates as a chance to leave clues about your expectations with a little technique called pre-framing. Say: 'My friend gets annoyed because her boyfriend never opens the car door for her. It's a shame when guys don't do those little things.'
~ Matthew Hussey
Ice cores, which are long cylinders scientists extract from glaciers, ice sheets or ice caps, contain gas bubbles, pollen, dust particles, or chemical isotopes that give scientists clues about what Earth's temperature and atmosphere were like when the ice caps first formed.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
~ Robert Frost
Clues from chaos, sense from madness.
~ Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith
~ injury. If they
Robert Galbraith
~ laconically.
Robert Galbraith
~ Bodhisattva
They might have something else.
~ Robert Galbraith
Very convenient, the way people can only speak in crossword clues from the afterlife.
~ Robert Galbraith
Robert Goldsborough
~ Portland—the
Simple curiosity, more than suspicion even, required that I search these faces for reactions, clues, indications-the faces that I knew better than any others, to the limits of my understanding such things. And of course they told me nothing.
~ Roger Zelazny
Reacher said, What have we missed ? Ratcliffe said, A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ? I saw one once.
~ Lee Child
Sherlock Homeless.
~ Lee Child
rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall
~ Lee Child
God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.
~ Lee Strobel