Quotes About Investigation

in case anyone might think I was snooping.

answer him. He and the sergeant went to the head

Il giornalismo è una missione.

Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.

To adduce proof that the husky, straw-hatted young man in gabardine who tailed me the whole next month was an F.B.I. operative is impossible, nor can I swear that my mail was fluoroscoped during that period. I do know that for a while I underwent all the tremors of a Graham Greene character on the run, even if it had no purificatory effect on my religious views. When

The question of whether history has a goal is one that falls in the domain of philosophy and rides on the back of logic. But the study of history has a definite goal: the search for truth.

There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn't the same as investigating the nature of one's mind absent any doctrinal assumptions.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

You have suspicions, nevertheless? Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.

Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence.

if you wish to find the guilty party, first discover whose interests the crime serves!

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

Josephine Tey's novel, The Daughter of Time (1951)

Body found floating by the docks . . .

Body found floating by the docks," he breathed "bloated by seawater and horribly mutilated... far... far beyond recognition. Were the injuries inflicted before or after death?" he asked the ceiling breezily. "Was the mysterious deceased a man or a woman even?" he shrugged. "Who can say?

Man found floating by the docks" - San Dan Glokta

I think while I was passed out, I dreamed about my mom's gingerbread cookies. Maybe the guy who knocked on the glass was eatin' one." "Mm," said Peace-not-War. "Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

Scopique leaned in close. "Lord Scabrous." "What about him?" "If he is abducting students for his own purposes," Scopique said, "then someone needs to find out who might be next.

and entered the main entrance to Ueno Park. Deciding to explore