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
I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like… — Francis Ford Coppola 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
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 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
We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the… — P.G. Wodehouse 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
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
“I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs,… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
“...for me, being a detective isn’t just about solving a case. It’s about bringing a resolution to all the loose ends, and… — Zechariah Barrett Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit… — Greg Capullo Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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 the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the…” quote by Samuel Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fca/samuel-barnett-15432_agency_dirk-gently-from-dirk-gently-s-holistic_2509897.jpg)
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