Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

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

Joseph Wambaugh

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

Robert Stack

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Keith Henson

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Mark Fuhrman

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

David McCandless

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

Matthew Bright

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Rob Lowe

Detective Lester Ybarra: It's raining cats, dogs, and Democrats out there, this better be worth it.

Changeling

Detective Lester Ybarra: Nobody can just up and kill 20 kids, okay? Sanford Clark: We did.

Changeling

Detective Rhonda Boney: Well, we have our first clue. [holds an envelope that reads Clue One]

Gone Girl

Detective Remy Bressant: [to Helene] You even give a fuck about your kid?

Gone Baby Gone

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Timothy Murphy

Detective Trupo: [Referring to Lucas] We need to keep this cash cow alive.

American Gangster

[after Smecker proves the Boston detectives wrong] Paul Smecker: We'll start the ass-kissing with you.

The Boondock Saints

Marty: [looking at a doctored photo of Ray and Abby] Dead? Private Detective Visser: So it would seem.

Blood Simple.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

Bill Rancic

The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without hi...

Rory Kennedy

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting quest...

Yann Martel

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Beatrice and Virgil

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the mi...

Susan Minot