British Detectives Quotes

#1. Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Stefania Mattana

#2. Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side.

Stefania Mattana

#3. I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

Jack Gleeson

#4. The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It's the karma effect, Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

Stefania Mattana

#5. He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.

Celia Conrad

#6. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Brian Eno

#7. One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn. You have wound your sense of self so tightly that it's hard to be anything other than you, a big ball of yarn. That's just who you are, not string, or threads, but a ball of yarn.

Lodro Rinzler

#8. Chase stooped to inspect it. Angelo handed him a latex glove, which took Chase three attempts to pull on before tearing it. He had never had a good relationship with latex. He tried two more, tearing each one of those too.

Stefania Mattana

#9. When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Twyla Tharp

#10. I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Viggo Mortensen

#11. Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn't look like the proper place for you, said Chase.

Stefania Mattana

#12. It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Stefania Mattana

#13. Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

Robert B. Parker

#14. Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronald Steel

#15. Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

David Massengill

#16. There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

Stefania Mattana

#17. Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Celia Conrad

#18. Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

Stefania Mattana

#19. If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

Elizabeth Lesser

#20. Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of balance to tackle her. They crashed to the ground.
"Why are you running from the ball, Cinderella?" he asked.

Stefania Mattana

#21. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#22. Life is only as good as you can dream it to be.

Terry A. Reschke