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.

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.

(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.

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.

Ruth Rendell

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

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.

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.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

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.

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.

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.

Ralph Fiennes

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

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.

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

Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses in this case. One told us that Matthew had spoke to the witness and told them that he was involved in the stabbing the victim.

Detectives did a very good job. We don't question why things happen.

Our detectives worked very hard on this, ... There was no smoking gun. It took a real team effort.

Our detectives were very concerned. This was a recipe for disaster.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that, ... We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Once the offer was made for cash, detectives stepped in.

Manny Farber

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

James Denton

Is he a plumber, a detective - who knows. It's so confusing.

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

Not every visit is going to be film room, practice. Some of the visits are going to be interviews and getting the detective work done.

There's at least four others that have been implicated initially and the detectives are working very really hard to locate these subjects. We don't know exactly where they may be. They may be in town, in state or perhaps even out of state.