Investigating The Strange Quotes & Sayings

I repeat that there is no practical joke here, but that we are investigating a serious crime. A vague thrill ran through me as I listened to my companion's words and saw the stern gravity which had hardened his features. This brutal preliminary seemed to shadow forth some strange and inexplicable horror in the background. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If it pleases you.
And in his wprds, as always, Kate heard the echo of I love you. — Lorraine Heath

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again. — George C. Wallace

Shush me again, I dare you." - Annabelle — Gena Showalter

Fiction is often the best fact. — William Faulkner

The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. — Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me. — Ben Barnes

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles

I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it. — Saul Bellow

If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are. — Fennel Hudson

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. — Dwight Davis

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. — Stephen J. Field

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature. — Chang-rae Lee