Detectives Quote by Dean Koontz Download Open image “Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.” — Dean Koontz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detectives Doe Generations Odd thomas Vomiting
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“From the pit of his stomach a violent spasm of nausea rose up and seized his throat. He ran to the bathroom, barely able… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Vomit began to spill out of me like pea soup, splattering the road with champagne and caviar, long island iced teas, of bacon appetizers… — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers.… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
