| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d228cbf | ...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake. | work-ethic thoroughness | John D. MacDonald | |
| 283fd2c | The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care. | work-ethic thoroughness | Flannery O'Connor | |
| ee94fa3 | I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance. I don't expect to go over ground the police have covered and pick up a broken pen point and build a case from it. If you think there is anybody in the detective business making a living doing that sort of thing, you don't know much about cops. | thoroughness detectives | Raymond Chandler |