Quotes About Investigation

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

Curiosity is the main energy.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

I seek to find, so I search.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as—in Ford Madox Ford's words—a "medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.

Once she was deeply fascinated with her parents. She had craved knowledge about them. As a child she fiddled with locked doors and drawers, got down on her knees and dug through closets, lingered outside her father's study during business calls until her mother shooed her off. Fifteen years ago, she had at last recognized the pointlessness in trying to uncover the truth from a man who had never actually been convicted of anything, and a woman who had sealed shut her emotions decades ago.

Here's the way the law works," Carter said, "since it's clear you aren't smart enough to know. First, there's an investigation where we gather evidence. Once we have evidence, we arrest people. I don't care if you're mayor of the universe. You still can't direct me to arrest someone without evidence. So either shut up and let me do my job correctly or get in there and clean your own damned kitchen.

into some odd business concerning Gilbert Forrest.

do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to have the whole damned EPA up your ass? Because that's what I have right now, and according to my wife, I've never had much ass, so it's getting crowded down there and I'm more than a little uncomfortable. You

I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

A traditional mystery is a whodunit, whereas a thriller is a how-can-we-stop-them-from-doing-it. As you compare these seemingly opposite subgenres in Figure 1.1, you'll note that although they differ in essential ways, they share a fundamental element—the use of suspense.

Where there's smoke, there's fraud.

Even Tidewater's computer gurus hadn't been able to trace the origin of his messages.

What is it?' said Moomintroll. Discoveries were his very favourite thing (after mysterious paths, swimming and secrets, that is).

If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we'd know a lot more about life after death." "Dead