Detective Gumshoe Quotes

#1. Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.

Maya Angelou

#2. A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

Eliot Engel

#3. Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

Dashiell Hammett

#4. I spend my night writing you love letters;The eraser
Then spend my day
Erasing each, word by word.
Your eyes are my golden compasses;
They point me toward the sea of separation!

(translated from the Arabic by Sivar Qazaz)

Ghada Samman

#5. Mr. Baldwin, to get away from

John Grisham

#6. Steady had always suspected Ethan "Ozzie" Sykes, despite his constant joking and bad taste in eighties music, was one tough motherfucker.

Julie Ann Walker

#7. It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Rollo May

#8. Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Bill Gates

#9. For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

Dave Grohl

#10. There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Sue Grafton

#11. I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. Retirement in America has come to mean "save enough money so I can quit the job I hate.

Dave Ramsey