Female Detective Quotes

#1. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.

Frances Brody

#2. I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk. But it has been proven that they can communicate using their hands to communicate. So sign language is a great tool in that way.

Marlee Matlin

#3. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.

Laurie R. King

#4. About Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.

Lily Gardner

#5. I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Robert Bloch

#6. There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn't one of those. Lammers was one of those crack-in-the-ass guys ten months pregnant with a beer baby.

Lily Gardner

#7. I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

Mariah Carey

#8. I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

John Lahr

#9. Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Rodolfo Costa

#10. That was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.

Lily Gardner

#11. For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Vera Nazarian

#12. He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks.

Sun Tzu

#13. She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.

Elizabeth Strout

#14. One of the most positive things that has come of that communication is I have been able to see how much I have grown. When I listened to them tell me things they saw in me back then I was amazed. I didn't see those things then. Not at all. And I can see them today.

Paula Heller Garland

#15. That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

Brian Dietzen

#16. A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

Jean Vanier

#17. The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.

Lily Gardner

#18. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Benjamin

#19. Good and evil," Nick said. "Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale - move one way, the scale tips to the left, but move the other, and it swings around to the right.

Abramelin Keldor

#20. Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury