Quotes and Sayings About Detectives

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
-- Ben H. Winters

#Littles #Detectives #Novelty

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
-- Ben Wheatley

#Drama #Reality #Detectives

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
-- Carl Jung

#Passion #Detectives #Cinema

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

#Hands #Use #Detectives

Where there's a will there's a detective story.
-- Carolyn Wells

#Stories #Detectives

I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.
-- Celestine Sibley

#Moving #Detectives #Kind

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.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Smart #Zeppelins #Detectives

Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
-- Darynda Jones

#Care #Detectives #Scales

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
-- David Herbert Donald

#Thinking #Tasks #Detectives

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
-- David Oyelowo

#Friendship #Black #Detectives

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.
-- David Rumelhart

#Education #Trying #Detectives

I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh. “Why couldn’t you simply be an alcoholic like all the other detectives?” I grinned. “Demon summoning has less vomiting!
-- Diana Rowland

#Long #Vomiting #Detectives

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

#Plot #Elements #Detectives

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

#Detectives #Week #Form

There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Reading #Profound #Detectives

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

#Years #Detectives #Used

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
-- Eva Mendes

#Ideas #Historical #Detectives

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
-- George Santayana

#Philosophy #Ideas #Detectives

to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan
-- Gosho Aoyama

#Believe #Way #Detectives

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
-- Jacqueline Bisset

#People #Detectives #Conclusion

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.
-- Jane Roberts

#Evil #Criminals #Detectives

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
-- Jeff Lindsay

#Marine #Detectives #Tides

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
-- Jeffery Deaver

#Stories #Detectives #Tradition

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.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Too Late #Want #Detectives

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

#Mind #World #Detectives

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.
-- Joe Navarro

#People #Drs #Detectives

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
-- Jon Voight

#Play #Detectives

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
-- Joseph Wambaugh

#Giving #Research #Detectives

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.
-- Lisa Sanders

#Medicine #Doctors #Detectives

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.
-- Manny Farber

#Sleep #Curiosity #Detectives