My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer. — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive.… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,'… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I was at the beginning stages of my pregnancy, and it never really feels real anyway, until you actually start showing and… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question. — Elaine Dundon Copy Share Image
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed.… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in… — Norbert Jacques Copy Share Image
The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh.… — Diana Rowland Copy Share Image
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