Detectives Quotes

199 quotes by 150 authors

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to… — Nancy McKeon
I play a detective, very close to myself actually. — Jon Voight
Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this… — Mark Billingham
I donâ€™t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there… — Mary Lavin
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockianâ€”solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring… — Lisa Sanders
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives… — Peter Medawar
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You… — David Oyelowo
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself. — Ben H. Winters
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his… — Joe Navarro
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here. — Alain Resnais
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered… — Rex Stout
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. — Jeffery Deaver
These days we donâ€™t have to fit into something other people think we are. Weâ€™ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. Iâ€™m a mom,… — Mariska Hargitay
Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and… — Zelda Fitzgerald
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and… — Ludwig von Mises

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