Quotes About Investigation

Good. Because right now I don't have you pegged as a yuppie. You're something else. I'm not sure what you are, but I'm going to find out." "Cool.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

Because, as we used to say in the NYPD: A single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem.

Cops sit on their asses and flip through their folders. Feds sit on their derrières and peruse their dossiers.

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Cops say that FBI means "fabulously boring individuals

every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

Everybody talks to me about 'P.M.s,'" complained Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn to Inspector Fox on Monday afternoon, "and I never know whether they mean post-mortem or Prime Minister. Really, it's very difficult when you happen to be involved with both.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

We often get impeachment inquiries or moves for impeachment inquiries on one president or another, and it doesn't go anywhere.

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.

The Brits make the best murder mysteries - I mean, did you see 'Broadchurch'? Wasn't it amazing? I love the mysteries and trying to put it all together.

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

I'm the Nancy Drew of drag!