Detectives Quotes

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

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

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

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.

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.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

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.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

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

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

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

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

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.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...

We women have intuition, " Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.

I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

Something not from earth, ” Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. “Live long and prosper.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you, ” said Chase.

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect, ” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.