“He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to… — Mary Davys Copy Share Image
I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to witness death by violence, a thousand times worse to hold a man’s life in your own… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
My character [in Ted Bundy] was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“The town was more than ready to accept the window dressing that hid the ugly truth of Joe's guilt. Some shared the… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when… — Molly Lefebure Copy Share Image
Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Another problem with the view that you don’t need God to believe that murder is wrong is that a lot of people… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“…Obviously, I have always wished I could remember what happened in that wood. The very few people who know about the whole… — Tana French Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.… — Kevin Pollak Copy Share Image
As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
![“[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages…” quote by William Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d1/william-goldman-1095_afternoon_prince-humperdinck-was-seventy-five-minu_2026460.jpg)
![“My character [in Ted Bundy] was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried to keep myself out of it and kind of keep an innocent point of view from it. The hard scenes for me were the sex scenes just because there's like sexual deviance going on and there was…” quote by Boti Bliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d9/boti-bliss-19945_character_my-character-in-ted-bundy-was-unaware-of_2796496.jpg)
![“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/837/george-orwell-57_begging_in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing_1334346.jpg)
![“I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need…” quote by Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/143/ray-bradbury-75_enough_i-don-t-like-realism-we-already-know-the_239875.jpg)
![“Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.” quote by Dennis Hopper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/290/dennis-hopper-8988_actor_jimmy-dean-was-the-most-talented-and-ori_2505913.jpg)
