Serial Quotations

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

I'm definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I'm more of a salty snacker, though I've been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother!

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

There is no other church official in America who has a more documented record in the courts and elsewhere of aiding and abetting serial child rapists -- predator priests who are out there.

Very few serial killers keep you alive for very long. They abduct you and you're dead within an hour.

We are talking to him about other murders. There may be more... This case of the serial killer has disturbed the whole country.

Since 2000, China has enacted serial regulations and laws for Internet service providers, by which China manages its Internet market in line with international conventions.

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.

Most serial killers kill at home as a hobby on a part-time basis. But (I think) this guy has made it into a career. He roams the country and he could be in my state next, in your state next, and that's very terrifying,

If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her.

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.

I feel that we have a serial, a true serial pedophile off the street.

If the 1997 law cannot prevent the interment of a notorious serial killer, then what good is it? ... One thing is certain already -- the parole loophole must be closed.

He was willing to do whatever was required in order to be the serial killer that he was, ... He's like the wolf preying on the weak sheep." ()

For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

He's a serial child molester. Wherever he is now, there are some unwitting families that have no idea what he is about.

His name, rank and serial number. As long as he tells me that, he's good to go.

We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.

He wanted to be remembered as a famous serial killer, but I hope he is forgotten and that we only remember his victims and the families that survive them.

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Jon Bon Jovi plays this teacher and we're the students in his class. He creates a game about a serial killer but then it starts happening to us,

It caused a lot of damage to the buildings. Also, the short time period that they occurred, it drew attention and made people think we had a serial arsonist, and that's probably not the cause.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

I think what would I do next if, as in his case, he goes to look at the place where a serial killer lived and indeed buried his victims and instead of finding this very squalid and sinister street he finds it's all gone and the whole place has been turned into a very pretty little enclave of small, pretty houses and gardens and trees and flowers and cobbled streets.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Many fear it is the work of a serial killer.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

Most don't have the portrait on the right side of the bill that is seen on genuine currency when it is held up to the light. When the portrait is in place on the counterfeit money, it is usually of poor quality. In some instances, when the bill was taken by a person with wet hands, the ink smeared. Some of the serial numbers used have been the same, with some businesses unknowingly taking several counterfeit bills at one time, all of them with the exact same serial number,

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

What we've got here is a sexually sadistic pathological serial killer. And he is the scariest of them all, the Hollywood type that we see in the movies and don't really think is going to strike in our neighborhood. But he's out there.

the real-life tale of a serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco for 25 years. Graysmith and Avery worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, which the killer used as a conduit to communicate with authorities.

We have been actively involved in the diesel particulate filter business since the 1980's in Europe and went into high volume serial production on light vehicles in 2000. This win with International continues the growth of Tenneco's diesel particulate filter business, expected to be over 1.5 million units annually in 2007.

When you incarcerate a serial killer, your crime rate goes down - the public is safer. When you incarcerate a drug trafficker, someone else just steps in and takes the job. They don't take their crime to prison with them.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

When she didn't come back, that's what clicked in my head -- the serial killer out here.

We seem to be able to absorb serial shocks.

We don't really understand these serial sexual homicides to the extent that we think we do. We think we know what's going on. But because these people are so rare, we really don't. It's chilling.

We have entertained the idea we may be talking about a serial killer,

Bollard is doing the right thing by saying there's a long way to go before there's a cut in rates. There will be an initial reaction in favor of the New Zealand dollar but it hasn't changed our view that the New Zealand dollar is in a serial decline.

Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable,

Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

The thing that I don't get about these serial killers is he went to work - he worked every day - and was good at what he did.

Personally, I don't think he is a serial killer but just a thief, an ordinary thief who has been attacking soft targets such as women. And I don't think he was operating alone, there may be others like him, but of course we are investigating that and we shall come to the bottom of it.

You shouldn't have anything without a title and every part off the vehicle should have a serial number on the receipt that you got with it.

You're not selling the property for the property sake itself. You're using the ill-gotten notoriety of one of the country's most famous serial killers to jack up the price.

They make attempts to identify serial offenders and keep them out. These types of people are not wanted at cricket matches. If there's a cost-effective method of keeping them out, we'll certainly look into it.

They are serial killers. They are not worthy of being out in society.

This is the latest in a long line of failures. This serial incompetence beggars belief.

It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.

It was scary seeing my kids in the photos. It was like I was looking at three serial killers.

It's a very exacting science because you have to have the right serial number for each savings-bond buyer.

The No. 1 job of serial killers is security. Yes, I would be looking at this guy very carefully for those reasons. When you're going out to car at night, the last person you want to walk you to your car is a security guard.

It's clearly understood that there is going to be a reduction in the workforce as we move away from the space shuttle era and into the Crew Exploration Vehicle era. What happens in serial processing is that the workforce reduction would happen a lot sooner.

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

They come back and say to a judge that you didn't consider A, B and C, ... You endure these serial filings. It's just part of law. As long as there is paper and a typewriter there'll be a motion, but I think the court's original ruling is clear. So we move on, we answer any questions that the judge wants answered, and I expect that the result of this motion will not be different than the result of their original motion.

At the same time the technological world is giving moviegoers all kinds of other entertainment options, there has been an increase in the quality of really great serial television - both broadcast and cable. That is giving audiences the kind of character development that they feel is missing from so many Hollywood blockbusters, which are overly concerned with special effects.

I'm very concerned because of the serial killer. She was aware of that and she promised me that she would never go out looking for a job at night.

In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, have given way, largely, to a more intuitive approach.

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

I really think he was fulfilling his dream. And he was a serial killer in the making.

I really get disturbed when I listen to them talk, when I read what they write. The excitement they feel is something like a serial killer's who has found a socially-acceptable outlet for his pathology.

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.

By promoting a serial murderer into the national hero, his victims are being killed once again and Serbia is being ashamed as a country in which crime is top virtue.

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!

This hasn't changed our view that the New Zealand dollar is in a serial decline. The currency is on a depreciation cycle, regardless of whether interest rates go down or not.

And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.

And so there I am on the A&E channel's program about serial killers, wearing a gray (uniform) shirt.

The compassion is instigated by the situation, and Godwin, a bit ham-handedly, belabors the situation so that there can be no doubt in the reader's mind, makes Marilyn sweet, young, and innocent (rather than a cold-blooded murderer or serial killer) so that reader will want to save her - and then the realization of "the cold equations" will be more effective.