"Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the â€œsuspicious behaviorâ€ bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with â€œstupidly overpowerful dogâ€ and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-Âexpenses-paid visit to your local police station."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Dog Quotes #Winning Quotes #Police Quotes

“On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.”
“Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.”
“Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.”
“Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.
“The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.”
“What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.”

Source : "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.
“I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things”

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