Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Twis Lizasuain

(Moeller) spent the evening late last night and into the early morning hours with our detectives and has been cooperating with us so far.

Ed McBain

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Agatha Christie

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Jimmie Lee

One of our detectives was investigating the possibility that he was violating the restraining order. After talking to him and other witnesses, he was arrested.

Ann Clwyd

We very much look forward to working with Scotland Yard detectives to ensure that any possible technical or evidential obstacles to moving swiftly towards an indictment are removed -- hopefully in the next few months.

Douglas Adams

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Bruno Schulz

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.