Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Donald Ray Pollock

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

James Ellroy

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Jo Nesbo

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Michael Koryta

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Noah Baumbach

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Kate Mosse

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

Daniel Solove

Sure, the more intrusive the government becomes, the more potential crime it can solve.

John Pomfret

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

Carol Palmer

Restorative Justice puts a human face on the handling of crime and violence. Rather than being purely punitive in approach, restorative justice involves the entire community.

Sir Vanbrugh

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Bianca Jagger

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Jacques Rogge

It is a question of sporting ethics rather than a question of crime and criminality.

Judy Shepard

Last week you said in the debate that you opposed the Kennedy hate crime bill,

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Catherine Campbell

Lisa Madigan can do this, ... domestic violence is a crime in any court.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

Bible Bible

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Janeane Garofalo

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.