Patricia Cornwell quotes

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Technology #People #Crime

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#World #Harm #Found

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Medicine #Interesting #People

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Trying #World

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Optimism #Good Health #Wanted

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Believe #Roots #Evil

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Powerful #Powerful Women #Murder

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Taken #Body #Scalpels

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Blood #Red #Needs

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Dna #Identification #Ability

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Smell #Difficult

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Body #Want #Study

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Book #Numbers #People

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Insecure #Unpredictable #Feels

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Night #Wind #Air

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Cures #Plates

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Missing #Cases #Worst

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Friday

I like to get to bed with a clear head.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Bed #Clear

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Crazy #Cowboy #Shoes

I don't do things that are illegal.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Illegal

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Country #Gun #America

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Kind #Armani #Persons

Thoughts are odd misfires.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Odd

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Writing #Littles #Break

Everyone is doing forensics.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Forensics

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#One Day #Feels

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#College #Two #Funeral

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Wake Up

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Voice #Faces #World

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Revenge #Survival

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Mystery Novels #Mystery #Novel

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Bothered

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Cereal #Pavement #Covered

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Grief #Storm

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Men #Giving #Want

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Rain #Science #Night

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Mother #Two #Wife

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Hair #Long #Fifty

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Simple #World

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Morning #War #Virginia

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Vulnerable #Position

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Firsts #Doe #Death Penalty

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Book #Kids #Writing

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Wrinkles #Botox #Frowning

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Smart #Giving #Advice

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Pain #People #Suffering

I refuse to sit on my laurels.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Laurels #Refuse

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Upset #Surprise

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#College #Labs #Chemistry

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Character #Bored #Long

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Smart #Firsts #Cases