Quotes About Investigation

I'm a detective. I ask questions until I like the answers.

There I sat and waited. Alone in the dark. Because that's what detectives do. We sit. We watch. And we wait. Sooner or later something happens. It always does.

England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into constantly. The police come, they look around, they dust for fingerprints. Well, we know who it is, they say. Wonderful, who? The same ones who did it last time, they say.

With the Great Detective to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The Washington press corps was small. It was not until later, amid growing anger about a cover-up during the Vietnam War, that significant numbers of reporters became obstreperous in challenging official sources. Only in the 1970s, in the aftermath of Watergate, did this attitude become widespread among political journalists in the United States.

Mrs. Berch, who witnessed the shooting, said she thought she recognized the man who killed her husband, but authorities Tuesday said they had no clews as to the identify of the members of the mob. They were not masked.

strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.  —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.

That I was desirous of believing her indifferent is certain—but I will venture to say that my investigation and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears.

Man will not learn the basic nature of reality by studying the physical universe alone, nor will he learn it by studying the personality as it operates within the physical universe alone. The nature of reality can only be approached by an investigation of reality as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness: reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissociation, and as it appears in the waking condition.

Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.

poking around in this dump, as it would be

Stephanie Plum,I almost never shoot anyone.

It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due. Carl Costanza - Seven Up

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator. Stephanie Plum

There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect Stephanie

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

My father hired you to protect me, Ahmed said, not to go off chasing men. Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. We think this guy killed Fred. Who's Fred? My uncle, I told him. He's married to Mabel. Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing.

You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently?" ~ Morelli

Stephanie Plum, psycho bait.

I smell vampire -Lula You're a Nut -Stephine Well I smell something. -Lula Mold. -Stephine Yeah. I smell moldy vampire -Lula

Okay, Ranger said. We're going to walk through the room and look for this guy. Pretend I'm not here. You going to be the wind again? I asked. Ranger grinned. Wiseass.

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

We could track down a gang guy wanted for armed robbery and assault." "That sounds like a lot of fun, but I might have to pass on account of I don't want to die right now." "We could visit some of Sunny's relatives and ask if he's staying with them." "Ditto for the above reason.