Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

The back-doore robs the house.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.