Quotes About Investigation

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Never stay on the surface of the problem, explore it. Try to get to the core of the problem, go deeper.

Something about the Judge Raymond Randolph murder case. Something was wrong. He could feel it deep in his bones, like a sliver buried under the skin.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

You hire another PI and you'll only get him killed - and start a shit storm that is going to rain down on not only you but also your husband and his daughters. You sure it's worth it just to get some dirt on your husband's former wife?

The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.

From now on, I want you to look at your behavior the way a scientist looks at what's growing in a petri dish—with curiosity and objective distance.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

There is nothing quite like working on a counter-terrorism case in real time.

Social realism takes research.

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.

Koresh certainly was guilty of something.

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.