Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk.… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who… — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — Terence McKenna 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
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective,… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George 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
I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time."… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
“Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book… — Alan Robert Copy Share Image
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.' — David Harewood Copy Share Image
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