Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because… — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the… — Ethel Mannin Copy Share Image
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Olympic double amputee Oscar Pistorius was arrested and charged with killing his girlfriend today. It looks pretty cut and dried and he… — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
I refuse to answer my front door because I'm convinced someone is going to murder me. I used to think that some… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“He runs his eye along the row of knives in their racks, the cleavers for splitting bones. He picks one up, looks… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
We get de gal dem wet. Minute man no get another shot inna de bed, gal fi run red. When it come… — Zulu Copy Share Image
Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
“It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.' 'That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Hit me again, and I'll report you to the authorities. Follow me to my bed one more time, and I swear to… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as… — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“I don’t think ‘fear’ is the right word for his kind,” Hoffman observed. “It’s milked out of them before they are released… — Michael Parker Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
