Big sleep Quote by Manny Farber

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where…

— Regina Doman

“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before dawn, weary…

— Alan Furst

When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's…

— Michael Connelly

The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women…

— Manny Farber

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

— Virginia Woolf

Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

— Evelyn Anthony

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled…

— Albert Camus

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works…

— Alexandra Daddario

“In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested…

— Ray Bradbury

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

— Stephen Leacock