Quotes About Investigation

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?

Death, he thought. This whole clue hunt's been about death.

They were Amy and Dan Cahill's parents, people who had died in an accidental fire years ago. Or maybe not so accidental.

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

Galileo was right, and the Church in this case abused its disciplinary power. As Pope John Paul II admitted in 1992: "This led them [the theologians who condemned Galileo] unduly to transpose into the realm of the doctrine of the faith, a question which in fact pertained to scientific investigation." Such acknowledgments, however, didn't come for almost four centuries.

no estoy en policiales —dijo Santiago—.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Mark reiterated how assiduously the FBI and his own department were now gathering evidence against him.

I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.

The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog...I decided the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.

said this. He kept on looking through

He was an inspector. I could tell because he wasn't wearing a uniform. He also had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils.*2

The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story which means that there are clues and Red Herrings.