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"There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine
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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"There should be a detective show called 'Johnny Monkey,' because every week you could have a guy say 'I ain't gonna get caught by no MONKEY,' but then he would, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth" »Rush Hour
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"You should not live one way in private, another in public." »Publilius Syrus
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"Praise in public criticize in private." »Vince Lombardi
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"God enters by a private door into every individual." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public." »Brian K. Blackden, 1996
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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." »Unknown
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"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier
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"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again." »Frank Moore Colby
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s" »Elbert Hubbard
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself." »Mark Twain
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"The most private essence of a person's fiber can only be measured by deed; not through written tests." »Jonar Nader
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"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." »Penn Jillette
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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." »Lillian Smith
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before." »Luigi Barzini
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings
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