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Quotes About Investigation

What are you doing?" I asked Loretta. "Stabbing a cushion," she told me.
~ Joel N. Ross
A few years ago, long after these Whitehall studies, the British government's tax office had a problem, and they called Michael back to the civil service to ask him to help them—urgently—to find a solution. The staff investigating tax returns kept killing themselves. So Michael spent time in their offices to find out why this was happening.
~ Johann Hari
Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
~ Isaac Asimov
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
~ Eric Schlosser
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
~ Blythe Danner
Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.
~ Frederick William Robertson
We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.
~ Mike Pence
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
~ Milan Kundera
the FBI pursued Dalitz for 50 years, but he was never convicted of anything.
~ E. Michael Jones
Science and The Word of God There is a constant effort made to explain the work of creation as the result of natural causes; and human reasoning is accepted even by professed Christians, in opposition to plain Scripture facts. There are many who oppose the investigation of the prophecies, especially those of Daniel
~ E.G. White
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~ E.W. Howe
Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. (On assassination of President John F Kennedy(
~ Earl Warren
Any new corpses today?" "None yet." "Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.
~ Ed McBain
The feathers in the one pillow on the bed were duck down. The feather found, therefore, had not come from the pillow. It was found stuck to a smear of blood, so chances were it was left by the killer and not left by someone who'd been in the room previous to the killer. If the killer, therefore, had a pigeon feather stuck to his clothes, chances were he was a pigeon fancier. All the cops had to do was track down every pigeon fancier in the city. That job was for the birds.
~ Ed McBain
The police department is a vast organization, and a detective is only an organization man.
~ Ed McBain
assassination, the activities of Sirhan Sirhan, and finally into Charles Manson and the murder of Sharon Tate. Larry Larsen provided some reliable information, given to him by Smith himself, outlining Smith's investigation. Richard Smith prepared a report on the English Satanists around the
~ Ed Sanders
Scotland Yard isn't called in nearly as often as detective novelists seem to think
~ Edmund Crispin
EDNA BUCHANAN
~ Love kills.
reporters bumping into
~ Edna Buchanan
The man at the keyboard frowned. The green dot moved with the car, miles away. I watched the three detectives glued to the screen. This, I thought, is the police work of the future
~ Edna Buchanan
When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.
~ Edna Buchanan
Primero temí que fuera muy difícil averiguar algo de estos tipos que andan en los servicios de inteligencia, y toda esa mano.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Enquiring minds want to know.
~ Anonymous