My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
PATRICIA CORNWELL In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
PATRICIA CORNWELL The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the characte...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I like to get to bed with a clear head.
PATRICIA CORNWELL If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I've been stalked.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I refuse to sit on my laurels.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tensi...
PATRICIA CORNWELL The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identific...
PATRICIA CORNWELL The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
PATRICIA CORNWELL In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out...
PATRICIA CORNWELL If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
PATRICIA CORNWELL On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat fac...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize h...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your l...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
PATRICIA CORNWELL When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL the case is far from closed.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Everyone is doing forensics.
PATRICIA CORNWELL Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
PATRICIA CORNWELL But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would...
PATRICIA CORNWELL The Ripper case is not one to be conclusively solved by DNA or fingerprints, ... and in a way, this ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traf...
PATRICIA CORNWELL On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping ov...
PATRICIA CORNWELL If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than...
PATRICIA CORNWELL My ongoing investigation is far from an obsession, but an excellent opportunity to provide a platfor...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Both were cremated so fast. To this day, it really bothers me. One minute they were there; the next ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Because if somebody literally proves me wrong not only will I feel horrible about it, but I will loo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL They won't get a hotel room on the 25th floor. They know a ladder won't reach that high. So they sta...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
PATRICIA CORNWELL . . . she was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL i had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. t...
PATRICIA CORNWELL A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for m...
PATRICIA CORNWELL Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm." I try to brush it of...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, ...
JOHN CORNWELL Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their n...
JOHN CORNWELL Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibilit...
JOHN CORNWELL They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make al...
BERNARD CORNWELL Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 month...
BERNARD CORNWELL Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a ...
BERNARD CORNWELL Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances ...
BERNARD CORNWELL Not sure what I'd so with a notebook other than swat flies. If I want a break I'd rather go down to ...
BERNARD CORNWELL I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL We have a gaff-rigged topsail cutter, which sounds much grander than she really is, but she's exquis...
BERNARD CORNWELL And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear B...
BERNARD CORNWELL I took time off last year to sail the Atlantic, and if I got more opportunities for blue-water cruis...
BERNARD CORNWELL I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacl...
BERNARD CORNWELL He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause ...
CARL CORNWELL In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
CARL CORNWELL We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.
CARL CORNWELL God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I...
CARL CORNWELL We've got a grudge on our shoulder. We're a lot better than what we're showing and we've got a real ...
DAVID CORNWELL The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed...
JOHN CORNWELL Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trick...
JOHN CORNWELL Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of im...
JOHN CORNWELL Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum oc...
BERNARD CORNWELL Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote ...
JOHN CORNWELL I don't have a mentor.
BERNARD CORNWELL I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a...
BETSY CORNWELL I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than...
BERNARD CORNWELL This has to do with the internal dynamic, with the hardship imposed by structural adjustments, a soc...
RICHARD CORNWELL Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt ...
BETSY CORNWELL I start early - usually by 5 am, and work through to 5 pm, with breaks for lunch, boring exercise, e...
BERNARD CORNWELL Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacati...
BERNARD CORNWELL Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. gover...
BERNARD CORNWELL I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.
BERNARD CORNWELL The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it ...
BERNARD CORNWELL Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill me...
BERNARD CORNWELL Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. g...
BERNARD CORNWELL Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is ...
RANDY CORNWELL I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and for a few weeks afterwards I w...
BERNARD CORNWELL Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL And what, by the by, is a yale?"
"A heraldic beast," Thomas explained.
The doctor sniffed....
BERNARD CORNWELL Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes th...
BERNARD CORNWELL Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...
BERNARD CORNWELL Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much no...
BERNARD CORNWELL We should know who they are," I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.
BERNARD CORNWELL It will never end.
Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, f...
BERNARD CORNWELL Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Griffin previously leased a house in the San Diego area from a San Diego business...
DAVID CORNWELL It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it...
BERNARD CORNWELL But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to cla...
BERNARD CORNWELL The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc...
BERNARD CORNWELL We all suffer from dreams.
BERNARD CORNWELL I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...
BERNARD CORNWELL Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to w...
BERNARD CORNWELL It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.
BERNARD CORNWELL We didn't collectively come together to either start the game well or finish the game well.
DAVID CORNWELL Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn...
BERNARD CORNWELL At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you...
BERNARD CORNWELL So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making be...
BERNARD CORNWELL One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, bu...
BERNARD CORNWELL So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
BERNARD CORNWELL Writing is a solitary occupation.
BERNARD CORNWELL Television is a young person's medium.
BERNARD CORNWELL I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear think...
BERNARD CORNWELL It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
BERNARD CORNWELL What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains...
BERNARD CORNWELL The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...
BERNARD CORNWELL I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at ...
BETSY CORNWELL Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.
BETSY CORNWELL The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch
BERNARD CORNWELL He has a mouth, lord," Gerbruht said.
"I envy him," I said.
"Envy him, lord?"
"Most o...
BERNARD CORNWELL And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just s...
BERNARD CORNWELL A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON