Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

Bertrand Russell

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

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.

Ruth Rendell

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Robert Stone

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.

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

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.

Ed McBain

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

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.

Agatha Christie

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

Cornelia Funke

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Peter Wallace

When you are going through the area, (the device) will automatically detect a network.

The real nifty thing ... is to be able to detect huge amounts of pipeline at a time.

Lindsey Graham

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.

We will form a vigilance team to inspect all the 4,000 ready-made garment factories round the year and detect violators, who will face strict action.

Andrew Gould

There are really no other methods at present that can detect planets of this mass and at this separation.

Robert Crais

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.

James Geary

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

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.