Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

Carlton Cuse

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Hugo Gernsback

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

Dean Cavanagh

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

Andrew Gould

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Adam McKay

Detective Lester Ybarra: Dig. You put them in the ground, now you can take them out. You heard me. Dig.

Changeling

Oliver Queenan: Congratulations on passing the detectives' exam, and welcome to the Special Investigation Unit. Dignam: Whoop-de-fuckin'-do.

The Departed

Detective: We're really sorry, Prendergast. We tried and tried but could not fit your fucking name on the cake!

Falling Down

Detective Remy Bressant: Kids forgive, they don't judge, they turn the other cheek, and what do they get for it?

Gone Baby Gone

Detective Cho Yong-koo: I only beat you up because I care about you.

Memories of Murder

Detective Park Doo-Man: There's a reason people say I have a shaman's eyes.

Memories of Murder

Hotel night clerk: You are with police? Larry Lipton: Yes, I'm a detective. They lowered the height requirement.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Ulysses Everett McGill: I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Paprika: It seems you have quite a fondness for movies. Detective Kogawa Toshimi: I don't really like movies all THAT much...

Paprika

Detective Rydell: And you know I will, because I got the toughest mob in the world. I'm the law.

Running Scared

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

Theo James

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

Liz Williams

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Leonard Mlodinow

I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected i...

Taylor Wilson

Detective Richie Roberts: The number one fear of people isn't dying, it's public speaking.

American Gangster

[from trailer] Detective Richie Roberts: Frank Lucas is the most dangerous man walking the streets of our city.

American Gangster