Serials Quotes - Page 5

• Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

  Shalom Auslander

  Police, Serial Killer, Thieves

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin

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• To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Firsts, Film, Hours

  V.S. Naipaul (2011). “The Enigma of Arrival”, p.133, Vintage

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• You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

  Gordon Strachan

  Cutting, People, Wife

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• If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Jobs, Fun, House

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• Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Challenges, Serial Killer, Killers

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Kings, Thinking

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• What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer.  Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

  Shelly Crane

  Jobs, Serial Killer, Killers

  Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.205, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• My first husband was a serial cheater.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Husband, Cheater, Firsts

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so that's where you have to delve into and do all the research. But, you have to find something likable in the character.

  Jamie Dornan

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

  Andy Borowitz

  Sweaters, Cost, Vests

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 25, 2012

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• I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Choices, Soul

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• Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Serial Killer, Technique, Use

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• I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

  Tommy Lasorda

  School, Army, Gun

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• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Animal, Air, Years

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• I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Serial Killer, Vampire, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Reality, Serial Killer

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Play, Serial Killer

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.

  Dylan McDermott

  Home, Judging, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

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• I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.

  Chris Hardwick

  People, Dating, Want

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• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  Johnny Galecki

  Thinking, Serial Killer, Killers

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• I'm a serial monogamist.

  Paloma Faith

  "Winona Ryder on why she's never been married", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2016.

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• Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

  Bill James

  Emotional, Stories, Tolls

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• The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Arson, Difficult, Evidence

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