Dime Detective Quotes & Sayings

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is. — Dallas Willard

Like most people with no grasp whatsoever of real economics, Mustrum Ridcully equated "proper financial control" with the counting of paper clips. Even senior wizards had to produce a pencil stub to him before they were allowed a new one out of the locked cupboard below his desk. — Terry Pratchett

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus. — Herbie Mann

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. — Thomas Harris

Tyler?" Brayden asked, and Tyler shook his head to clear thoughts that were going way too fast for him. "Sorry, yes, we'll just deal with my issues now," Tyler finally answered. "But, whatever it is that's bothering you, I hope you know I'll help if you need it." "I don't know if I like this new caring-brother thing you're doing." "Hey, I've always been caring, just a bit of an ass at times." "At times?" Brayden smiled. — Carrie Ann Ryan

Things are tougher than we are, just
As earth will always respond
However we mess it about ... — Philip Larkin

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. — Tom Brokaw

A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another. — Randy Chandler

I have always loved simplicity. With you, everything's black and white, Richie had said, like an accusation; but the truth is that almost every murder case is, if not simple, capable of simplicity, and that this is not only necessary but breathtaking, that if there are miracles then this is one. In these rooms, the world's vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity of a bare blade, two-edged: cause and effect, good and evil. To me, these rooms are beautiful. I go into them the way a boxer goes into the ring: intent, invincible, home. — Tana French

My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage. — Catherine Lowell

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank. — Robert Cray

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children. — Bertrand Russell

He levered himself upright and swung his legs out of bed, put both of his warm feet, into the strategically placed slippers, stood up, yawned, stretched and farted. — Keller Yeats