Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Grant

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

Carolyn Wells

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

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.

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.

Ed McBain

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

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

I was always concerned. The detectives and prosecutors were also, when I was talking with their informants,

John Walsh

Just yesterday, detectives filled in 20 minutes. They talked with someone, and they are still talking with witnesses.

When he showed up, expecting another easy mark, the detectives were waiting with handcuffs.

We've focused on being able to detect low wavelength light so this machine is able to see things other telescopes can't.

God did it. God and Detective Wise. I can't praise them enough.

He's been photographed from every angle. But detectives still have no idea who they are chasing, or how he got away with more than a half-million dollars.

There is an element of fear that I detect in people's voices when they talk about this issue. That is alarming.

Maureen Johnson

Our leak detection system was tested in 2002, and we physically demonstrated that it could find a one percent leak. That system was working and we followed our procedure.

We now know that early detection and treatment, including diet and medication, can slow down the progression of kidney disease and its complications and prevent further damage, in some cases,

James Geary

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Ralph Fiennes

Justin's journey traces not only what Tessa was investigating, he's also playing detective about their relationship,

It is early in the season to detect West Nile virus.

I want to try and get into those kinds of places. It's very important to make devices for life detection on Mars, for example. ... Any planet or moon with a solid surface will do.

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

With this technique, we can detect the very, very early stages of organ rejection in a non-invasive way.

would have probably led to the early detection of disgraced former officer Rafael Perez.

Obviously, if we deploy something that detects explosives, the enemy will simply try to obscure them more and more. We want to be able to detect the explosives within a lot of clutter.

Now we have our first genuine detection of light from a planet around a solar-like star,

Douglas Adams

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

Agatha Christie

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

We are putting more efforts into vaccine and detection research.

Glenn Tipton

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.

We don't know how long this pattern has existed because the kind of field experiment needed to detect the problem of low pollen transfer has been conducted by ecologists only for the last 25-30 years or so.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

Julie Gerberding

We're watching the situation with the avian flu very carefully, taking the steps that need to be taken now to help prepare and, most importantly, detect the transfer of that virus into people, ... But it is a very worrisome situation.

We're still trying to figure out what went wrong with this detection unit.