Dalziel Pascoe Quotes & Sayings

Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ask a sage, he will explain.
Ask a fool, he will complain. — Toba Beta

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt. — Arundhati Roy

When running away, I recommend arriving with keys. Makes you feel like you're actually in control of the situation instead of on the lam from your life. — Vanina Marsot

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. — Phyllis Diller

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?"
He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear.
If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained. — Reginald Hill

I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character. — Michael Rooker

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. — Miguel De Cervantes

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again - lots of them. — Hal B. Gregersen

Romance can be a by-product of crime. — Agatha Christie

Regular people said they couldn't tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads. — Karen Traviss

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever. — Kendrick Lamar

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. — Charles Barkley

Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect. — Randy Orton

All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ... — Deborah Tannen

They want to make me feel better about dying. To make me feel better about dying gives them a purpose." You pause. "But I'm fine about dying. And they just can't accept that. It takes away their purpose." You sip your tea and flinch. "And I'm buggered if I'm going to waste what's left of my time pretending to be terrified just to fit into someone else's picture of how things should be. I'd rather watch reruns of Dalziel and Pascoe on UK Gold. — Sarah Pinborough

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm. — Nadine Velazquez