Murder Quotes - Page 12

I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Nothing even comes a close second. Hillary Clinton, for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

It is like confessing to a murder.

War is murder writ large.

Every girl is capable of murder if you hurt her.

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.

We murder to dissect.

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

The hoverlanes were murder.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!