Quotes of: Detectives Keyword

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Herbert Donald

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

Donna Lynn Hope

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!

Dave Legeno

[peering into bag that Jeffrey brought] Detective Williams: That's a human ear all right.

Blue Velvet

[describing Frank to Detective Williams] Jeffrey Beaumont: Frank... is a very sick and dangerous man.

Blue Velvet

Detective Wuertz: Dent. Jesus. I thought you was dead. Two-Face: Half.

The Dark Knight

Detective Remy Bressant: Where I come from, you die with your secrets.

Gone Baby Gone

Detective Park Doo-Man: Once this dries, the stain will form the shape of the murderer's face.

Memories of Murder

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.

Walter Benjamin

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

The Cuckoo's Calling

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Liberty and the news

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

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

Nic Pizzolatto

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

Paul Bremer

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