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Quotes About Investigation

Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.
~ Kirron Kher
The FBI and the NBA did a thorough investigation, and they both concluded that I did not fix games in the NBA.
~ Tim Donaghy
What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.
~ Burton Richter
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
~ Hans Blix
Any reports of animal cruelty should be thoroughly investigated and those operators held accountable.
~ Dick Durbin
I've read a thousand private-eye novels.
~ Shane Black
Once more the legend flourished that the number of years lived constitutes some kind of temperamental bond, so that people of the same age are many minds with but a single thought, bearing one to another a close resemblance. The young were commented on as if they were some new and just discovered species of animal life, with special qualities and habits which repaid investigation.
~ Rose Macaulay
Crimes often come in pairs.
~ Ross MacDonald
Nothing happened when I pressed the bellpush. I knocked on the door. Slowly, like twin bodies being dragged, footsteps approached the other side of it.
~ Ross MacDonald
Ross Macdonald
~ Dr. Brockley.
Only the blind had not seen Terry Neville.
~ Ross MacDonald
You're taking this pretty seriously," I said. "Why don't you go one step further and take it to the police?" "Trying to talk yourself out of a job?" "Yes.
~ Ross MacDonald
...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—
~ Rudolf Flesch
I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Christie, in particular, was a great one for the locked room mystery. The victim retires to his room, the door is locked from within, nothing has been forced open and yet the person has been shot or stabbed or clubbed to death. How did this happen? The question has been answered in various ingenious ways, usually involving a brilliant detective who can pick out clues the way you and I never could.
~ Ruskin Bond
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
~ Russell Baker
We can't all be investigating non-coding DNA," I said, feeling an upsurge of gastric acid. "Some of us have to sell bullshit self-improvement courses
~ Russell Hoban
S. Hussain Zaidi
~ procrastinating
One morning, though, I came in and found signs that my room had been entered. I knew it had been detectives. I'd heard too many times how if they couldn't find any evidence, they would plant some, where you would never find it, then they'd come back in and find it.
~ Malcolm X
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
To investigate and analyze, with understanding and logic, the principles we ought to live by.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A professional problem, O King, occupied me, and the mind, when so engaged, must not be detached from the prosecution of its enquiry.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
~ Margaret Atwood