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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Billingham

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

Invariably, the detectives (investigating the case) found the deceased were made younger and healthier on paper.

Giles Foden

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

It shows the detectives doing their job, doing it properly.

Michelle Monaghan

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

Emmett Shear

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

Tess Gerritsen

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.