Detectives Quotes

199 quotes by 150 authors

Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two… — Alexander McCall Smith
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out… — Carl Hiaasen
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating… — Christopher Bollen
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the… — Christopher Bollen
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From… — Christopher Bollen
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… — Stephen Leacock
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on… — Clint Walker
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's… — David
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now.… — Billy Bob Thornton
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight… — Michael Connelly
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. — Jeff Foxworthy
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was… — Ryan Gosling
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high… — Umberto Eco
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing. — Kevin Eubanks
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are… — Nathan Fillion
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that.… — Nathan Fillion

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