Quotes of: Detectives Keyword

Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.

A Study in Darkness

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

Letters from a Stoic

It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.

Threats

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Paper Towns

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

The Three-Cornered World

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Violet's Problem

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

Roy Blunt

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Temple Grandin

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

Timothy Murphy

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Michael Ealy

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Ross MacDonald

I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

Mark Valley

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Alfred Amoroso

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Olivia Williams

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Rex Stout

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

Elizabeth Kostova

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

Kevin Eubanks