Detectives Quote by Douglas Adams Download Open image “I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.” — Douglas Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detectives Inquisitive Presumptuous Private Detective
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. — Shirley Jackson 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
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring. — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
If you're rich enough for your own private security detail, you don't need the police. — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes. — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer. — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
“This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Anonymous 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 think an… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that… — Chester Himes 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 name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers.… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James 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 were invaluable… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
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