Forensics Quotes:

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Reduction, Forensics, Eloquence

Everyone is doing forensics.

- Patricia Cornwell

topic: Forensics

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

- Sandra Bullock

topic: Clue, Found, Forensics

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.

- Simon Norfolk

topic: Documentaries, Silent, Forensics, Journalistic

Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

topic: Calluses, Forensics, Self Portrait, Self Portrait Photography

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

- Patricia Cornwell

source: "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011.

topic: Medicine, Interesting, People, Forensics

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

- Ramsey Clark

topic: Law, Practice, Needs, Homicide, Pathology

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

- Alane Ferguson

topic: Skins, Taught, Tissues, Forensics

Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.

- Park Dietz

topic: Jobs, Outcomes, Matter, Partisans, Forensics

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Moving, Delight, Oratory, Forensics

Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

- Mark Riebling

source: "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

topic: Princess, Italian, Tunnels, Egyptian, Belgians

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

- Jeffery Deaver

topic: Stories, Detectives, Tradition, Detective Stories, Forensics

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

- Hill Harper

topic: Boys, Play, Dull, All Work And No Play, Forensics

I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.

- Scott Heim

topic: Book, Inspiration, Tv Shows, Cold Case, Forensics

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

- Tom Araya

topic: Book, People, Stuff, Case Studies, Crime Books

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

- Jim Stanford

source: Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

topic: Circles, Trying, Way, Forensics

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

- Bex Taylor-Klaus

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Long, Stuff, Study, Forensics

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

- Geena Davis

topic: Thinking, Two, Numbers, Forensics

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

- Kathy Reichs

source: "Bones Inspiration Kathy Reichs Writes Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe". Interview with Alan Orange, tvweb.com. May 4, 2010.

topic: School, Dna, Want, Microbiology, Graduate School

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

- Paul Feig

topic: Drama, Michigan, Clubs, Drama Club, Forensics

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

topic: Wise, Men, Sick, Forensics

[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.

- Werner Herzog

source: Source: www.rogerebert.com

topic: Years, White, Lions, Forensics

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

- Robert Gottlieb

topic: Fate, Psychics, Hobbies, Murder Mysteries, Forensics

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

- Kathy Reichs

topic: Cop, Skepticism, Sensitivity, Firecracker, Forensics

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Harvard University Press

topic: Character, Men, Hands, Forensics

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?

- Ridley Pearson

topic: Running, Jobs, Writing, Dark Alleys, Gorgeous Women

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

- Isabel Allende

source: "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

topic: Gun, Doctors, Experts, Forensics

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

- Edie Falco

topic: Night, Watches, Needs, Forensics

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

- Kevin Pollak

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Towns, Tvs, Murder, Confidential, Forensics

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

- Octavia Spencer

topic: Thinking, World, Germs, Forensics

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

- Geena Davis

source: Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Real, Character, Csi, Forensics

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

- John Banville

topic: Sentimental, Fiction, Matter, Forensics, Crime Fiction

I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it and got an A – so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn’t have a clue.

- Nikki Sanderson

source: "Nikki Sanderson: 'I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got'". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 2, 2008.

topic: School, Math, Careers, Forensics

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking.

- James Cameron

source: "Cameron: Jesus tomb film is a "detective story". Today Interview, www.today.com. February 27, 2007.

topic: Guy, Historical, Trying, Forensics

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

- George Orwell

topic: Honesty, Writing, Views, Intellectual Honesty, Forensics

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

- Allison Silverman

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: School, Character, Play, Forensics

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

- Emun Elliott

topic: Three, Scientist, Found, Forensics

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

- Josh Gad

topic: School, College, Speech, Forensics

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

- Ross Bleckner

topic: Discovery, Painting, Process, Investigators, Forensics

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

- James Belushi

topic: Real, House, Intellectual, Speeding Tickets, Intellectual Property

"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.

- Debra Winger

source: Source: www.hitfix.com

topic: Girl, Mother, Wall, Forensics

You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: "The Social Network". Biography, Drama, www.imdb.com. October 01, 2010.

topic: Team, Guy, Needs, Forensics

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

- Will Self

topic: Attention, Pay, Facts, Smack, Forensics

[Julian Albert] is a CSI investigator; a forensic expert with similar skills to Barry, which gives them a different relationship to, I think, anyone else that he works with, because they're sort of treading on each other's toes in their field of expertise.

- Tom Felton

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Thinking, Csi, Skills, Different Relationships, Forensics

In my workshop, I like to have the TV on for background noise, but I only put on shows that you don't really need to watch in serial order; stuff you can glance up every once in a while and still know what's going on; for example, Cops reruns, Jeopardy!, and Forensic Files.

- William Gurstelle

topic: Order, Background Noise, Example, Serials, Reruns

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

- Tom Felton

source: "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

topic: Latin, Book, Character, Forensics