quotes about Detectives
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There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
-- Ben H. Winters -
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 -
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 -
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
-- Carolyn KeeneSource : Carolyn Keene (1980). “Nancy Drew 05: The Secret of Shadow Ranch”, p.22, Penguin
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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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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.
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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 -
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
-- Darynda Jones -
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
-- David Herbert Donald -
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 -
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 -
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 RowlandSource : Diana Rowland (2011). “Secrets of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Three”, p.202, Penguin
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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 -
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
-- Ed McBain -
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 -
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
-- Errol Morris -
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I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
-- Eva Mendes -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.
-- Jane Roberts -
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 -
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
-- Jeffery Deaver -
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 EcholsSource : Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
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Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.
-- Jo Coudert -
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 -
I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
-- Jon Voight -
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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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 SandersSource : Lisa Sanders (2009). “Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis”, p.27, Harmony
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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 FarberSource : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America
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I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.
-- Mary Lavin -
I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!
-- Mary McCarthy -
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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.
-- Maureen Johnson -
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
-- Nancy McKeon -
I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
-- Nic Pizzolatto -
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
-- Nic Pizzolatto -
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The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)
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A really good detective never gets married.
-- Raymond Chandler -
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
-- Raymond Chandler -
Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...
-- Rex Stout -
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Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.
-- Rex Stout -
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
-- Rex Stout -
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
-- Rex Stout -
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
-- Robert Carlyle -
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I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
-- Robert Winston -
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
-- S. S. Van DineSource : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic
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I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
-- Shirley Jackson -
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
-- Steig Larsson -
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
-- Steig Larsson -
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
-- Stephen Leacock -
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.
-- Stephen Leacock -
I have worked very hard on ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy
-- Sushant Singh Rajput -
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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.
-- Tess Gerritsen -
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
-- William Peter BlattySource : Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
-- Giles FodenSource : "A one-word response to Engdahl" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.
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The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.
-- Hannu Rajaniemi -
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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.
-- Nina Tassler -
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
-- Ralph Davis -
The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems.
-- Samuel Barnett -
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.
-- Brian Pinkerton -
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The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
-- Emmett Shear -
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
-- Ross MacdonaldSource : Ross Macdonald (1973). “On crime writing”
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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.
-- Sushant Singh RajputSource : "'I Have Worked Very Hard on ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy' – Sushant Singh Rajput". bollyspice.com. February 14, 2015 |.
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I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.
-- Luc SanteSource : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.
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