Detective Agency Quotes

#1. When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary.

Jill Scott

#2. Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

David Oyelowo

#3. So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

Clint Walker

#4. Dana was what Steve called a "silent partner" in the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency. Being a silent partner meant that Dana didn't carry a business card, that his name didn't appear on the company letterhead, and he wanted nothing to do with the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency.

Mac Barnett

#5. an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility.

Bryan Burrough

#6. There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe
the only lady private detective in Botwana
brewed tea. And three mugs
one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need?

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Sophie Calle

#8. We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.

Jay Stringer

#9. A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.

Virgil

#10. There must have been a real mess on the tracks,' Lorna said, 'They shut down the F train line for a whole two hours for you. Two hours! And in rush hour!'
My final achievement. Man, I hoped Mom was getting that put on my gravestone. Here lies Charlotte Feldman. She pissed off commuters. A lot.

Suzy Cox

#11. One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#12. She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

Rachel Caine

#13. Rick had said the perfect honeymoon was being together.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#14. The bourgeois are other people.

Jules Renard

#15. Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

Brene Brown

#16. It's not right, we should not always be second best

Tanya Thistleton

#17. Sometimes its better to take a leap of faith

Anamika Mishra

#18. Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.

Alexander McCall Smith