Crime Quote by Bill James Download Open image “Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.” — Bill James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime People Shows Stories Trying
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. — Bill James Copy Share Image
“I’m sort of a baseball agnostic; I make it a point never to believe anything just because it is widely known to be so.” — Bill James Copy Share Image
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family,… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Words are useful, sir. That's from the communicating point of view. They come into their own then. When you think about it, even Morse… — Bill James Copy Share Image
We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the… — Bill James Copy Share Image
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice. — Bill James Copy Share Image
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear… — Bill James Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. — Bill James Copy Share Image
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
