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.

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

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

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

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

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

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.

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.

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 grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

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.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid.

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.

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.

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.

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

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." ()

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

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

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.

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

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,

Many fear it is the work of a serial killer.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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,

I saw him...at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

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

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

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.

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

A 'possessed' dog in the neighborhood won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.

I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.

I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt.

In this hole lives the wicked king.

I wasn't going to rob her, or touch her. I was just going to kill her.

I always had a fetish for murder and death.

I turn children into killers.

To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.

May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)

They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle.

They're daring me to kill again.

I am a serial killer. I would kill again.

You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.

Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left.

If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here?

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

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.

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.

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.

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,

We seem to be able to absorb serial shocks.

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.