A Quote by Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Bill James

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Emotional Just Serial Stories Take Toll Worst

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Bill James
American - Writer
Born: October 5, 1949

What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.

Kim Rossmo

'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it delivers a much bigger emotional punch. Patti Smith doesn't need to embellish; she just tells her stories... and her stories are incredible.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

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.

Pat Brown

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.

Pat Brown

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

Noam Chomsky

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Nina Dobrev

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.

Howard Martin

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Orson Scott Card

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Pat Brown

I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.

Julia Leigh

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

Chelsea Kane

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

Shahid Khan

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.

Albert Brooks

Sometimes overwork and travel take a toll on my health but I am alert and take precautions; I have learnt to deal with it. I take rest whenever I have time.

Rohini Hattangadi

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.