Detective Greenly Quotes & Sayings

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. — David Hume

I've been a workaholic since I was 18. — Greta Van Susteren

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer. — Walter Scott

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing. — Mary Pope Osborne

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did. — Jenny Uglow

Boys never believe I can beat them... But I always win in the end. - Lila — Holly Black

I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it. — Ethan Zuckerman

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision. — Tom Brewster

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do. — Zachary Cole Smith

I was dreaming. Not in a dream - so real I could feel the wind as I fell, or smell the metallic stench of blood in the Santee - but actually dreaming. I watched as whole scenes played out in my mind, only something was wrong. The dream felt wrong - or didn't, because I couldn't feel anything. I might as well have been sitting on the curb watching everything as it passed by ... . — Kami Garcia

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it. — Alfie Kohn