Quotes About Investigation

TIAs?" Crane said. "How extensive?" "Partial paralysis, slurred speech, lasting in each case less than two hours." "What were their ages?" "Late twenties and early thirties." "Really?" Crane frowned. "That seems awfully young for a stroke. Two strokes, at that. You did neurological workups?

We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.

He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck.

You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.

I have a lab filled with millions of dollars' worth of equipment, and I can tell you none of it works as well as a good dog's nose. I've witnessed canines hitting on hundred-year-old remains. What they even smell, none of us can tell you. At that point, there's no organic matter left; the bone is little more than a dried sponge. But the dogs always know.

I was so sure Livia was the missing link. Knowing about her involvement now, you'd load up these videos, we'd spy her hat, her face, something and kapow! All the pieces of the puzzle would fall into place.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

The world belongs to the people who are curious.

Never stop questioning

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

Follow your curiosity.

when writing a biography, you can't trust certainties. Just as you're about to pounce on something that will condemn you to a tidy answer, pooooofff! It vanishes.

Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airport.

Hampus looked up again. Ulf saw that tears had appeared in his eyes. He wanted to reach forward and wipe them away, but that was not for a detective to do.

Sometimes people simply did not want to find things out. Nobody was missing, nobody was cheating on their wives, nobody was embezzling. At such times, a private detective may as well hand a closed sign on the office door and go plant melons.

Mma Makutsi was unconvinced. "Where there is smoke there's fire, Mma. I have always said that." Mma Ramotswe could not let that pass. "But what does Clovis Andersen say in The Principles of Private Detection, Mma? Does he not say that you must be very careful to decide where the smoke is coming from? Smoke can drift, Mma. Those were his exact words, I think.

Ulf's life, normally so settled and so ordered, had now become markedly more complicated. What had been the Bim Sundström case had now become the Signe Magnusson investigation, and had, in the process, transformed itself from a case of the suspected non-disappearance of a non-existent person to one involving the actual disappearance of a real person.