Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage.

Italian

Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a completely unknown state of security through mapping, vulnerability testing, password cracking, modem testing, vu...

Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts' Handbook

Detective Trupo: Did you pay your bills, Frank? Frank Lucas: I don't know what you're talking about. Detective Trupo: You pay your bills, I asked you? Frank Lucas: Look, if you're not getting your share Detective Trupo: [interupts] What's my share? C...

American Gangster

Detective Deutsch: [questioning Fink about Mundt] What else? Barton: Trying to think. Nothing, really. He... he said he liked Jack Oakie pictures. Detective Mastrionotti: You know, ordinarily we say anything you might remember could be helpful. But I...

Barton Fink

Tony Wendice: How do you go about writing a detective story? Mark Halliday: Well, you forget detection and concentrate on crime. Crime's the thing. And then you imagine you're going to steal something or murder somebody. Tony Wendice: Oh, is that how...

Dial M for Murder

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

Detective David Tapp: At least we'll have the cover of darkness. Detective Steven Sing: So will anybody else.

Saw

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter ...

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Alan Turing: [after telling the story] Now you decide am I a machine,am I a human,am I a war hero,or am I a criminal. Detective Robert Nock: I'm not the person to answer that. Alan Turing: Then you're of no use to me whatsoever.

The Imitation Game

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Remy: [as Emile tastes a piece of cheese] Creamy, salty-sweet, an oaky nuttiness... You detect that? Emile: Oh, I'm detecting nuttiness...

Ratatouille

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

Detective Banner: [Holds up Nola's diary] have you seen this before? Christopher "Chris" Wilton: No [takes the diary and starts reading it] Detective Banner: Were you aware that Nola Rice kept a diary? Christopher "Chris" Wilton: [looks up after a fe...

Match Point

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Detective Duffy: This was their target, the fag-man. Paul Smecker: The what-man? [awkward pause] Detective Duffy: The fat man. Paul Smecker: Well. Freud was right.

The Boondock Saints

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow...

Neal Asher

The Joker: I want... my phone call. I want it. I want it! I want my phone call! Detective Stephens: That's nice. The Joker: How many of your friends have I killed? Detective Stephens: I'm a twenty-year man. I can tell the difference between punks who...

The Dark Knight

[Detective Trupo notices Richie's plans to arrest Frank Lucas] Detective Trupo: What's this? Don't tell me you're actually gonna arrest Frank Lucas, are you? Detective Richie Roberts: What? Haven't you heard? We're all fucking crazy over here. You kn...

American Gangster

Detective Trupo: [after Detective Trupo finds Blue Magic in a small bag in the car] What are we gonna do about this? Frank Lucas: We ain't gon' do shit about it. Close it up. Throw it back in the trunk. Everybody go home. Have some pumpin pie, warm a...

American Gangster

Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third.

Beowulf: Explosives Detection Dog