Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

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.

Michael Levitt

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

Cary Fukunaga

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

John Buchan

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

Harold V. Hall

Perry: Do not play detective. This is not a book. This is not a movie.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Detective David Tapp: [running after a suspect] I'm'a kill you, you sick asshole!

Saw

Detective Steven Sing: Maybe you should find yourself a girlfriend.

Saw

Detective David Tapp: Right, Sing, right? We're gonna close the scene!

Saw

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

Robert Winston

Detective Richie Roberts: Bagels and blinches: they will catch up with you, you know?

American Gangster

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Alain Resnais

Detective Greenly: These guys are miles away by now, but if you wanna beat your head against a wall, then here's what you're looking for: they're scared, like two little bunny rabbits. Anything in a uniform or flashing blue lights is gonna spook 'em,...

The Boondock Saints

Private Detective Visser: You know, you know, a friend of mine a while back broke his hand and put it in a cast. Very next day, he falls, protects his bad hand, and he breaks his good one. So he breaks it too, you know. So, now he's got two busted fl...

Blood Simple.

We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the gian...

N.D. Wilson

If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, a...

G.K. Chesterton

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in th...

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

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

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The Singing Detective

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Stephen Hawking