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Quotes About Investigation

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
I started by making pilgrimages to see the originals in Milan, Florence, Paris, Seattle, Madrid, London, and Windsor Castle. That followed Leonardo's injunction to begin any investigation by going to the source: "He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.
~ Walter Isaacson
Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as he did.
~ Walter Isaacson
We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
~ Walter Kirn
language. His idea of an investigation had more to do with conquest than it did with intelligence.
~ Walter Mosley
There's never just one cockroach in the kitchen.
~ Warren Buffett
Ain't no Jesus in Snowtown, Detective.
~ Warren Ellis
Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them look at him and judge by eye exactly how much his organs might be worth on the black market.
~ Warren Ellis
Es por eso que cuando aprendes a investigar aprendes también a valorar la investigación confiable y transmitida en forma clara y exacta.
~ Wayne C. Booth
HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER P.I.P.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
There is in every department of investigation great liability to error. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to mistakes as to matters of fact.
~ Charles Hodge
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
~ Charles Krauthammer
To demand to know is the obligation of every American. That it occasionally leads people down blind alleys, or off to Atlantis, is to be celebrated, not scorned.
~ Charles P. Pierce
When a crime is investigated, the explanation that is adopted is not the one that best accounts for all the circumstances, but the one that best serves the purposes of those carrying out the investigation.
~ Charles Palliser
See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.
~ Charles Seife
BLACK DUDE COP Whaddya got? ATTRACTIVE OFFICER Restaurant worker says the parents live nearby. We're hunting down an address. WHITE LADY COP Good. We'll pay a visit. Might have some questions for them. (then) Anyone else? ATTRACTIVE OFFICER A brother. Seems to have gone missing. Black and White exchange a look. BLACK DUDE COP This might be a case of— WHITE LADY COP The Wong guy.
~ Charles Yu
Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...
~ Chelsea Cain
Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Criminal Minds, False Flag: "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The penetrating gaze of a Scorpio is unlikely to miss any detail.
~ Monte Farber & Amy Zerner
There is nothing like a murderer, who's been kept on tender hooks for a while.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
What if we brainstormed for Questions?
~ Hal Gregersen
The mustached Polish guy turned out to be a mustached FBI guy.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason