Top 18 Gumshoe Quotes
#1. Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.
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Dianne Harman
#2. The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go.
Martin Amis
#5. When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
#6. You're arrogant."
"I'm Dacian. You can't have one without the other.
Kresley Cole
#7. 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
#8. The MAX made a stop in Old Town. Grandma nudged me with her purse. "This is where we get off." I followed her from the MAX down an alley between a strip club and a Chinese restaurant. What? Your grandma doesn't hang out in places like that too?
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
#9. A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts.
John Gimlette
#10. Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him.
"Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more.
"Then trust him with his own," he said simply.
John Flanagan
#11. And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#12. As many times as I want," Drake told her, voice rough and dark. "Until you can't breathe without feeling me on every inch of your body.
Cynthia Eden
#13. Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the only magazines they subscribed to were 'The Atlantic' and 'The New Yorker,' broke down and got 'Life' magazine.
Sally Mann
#14. Maybe there was no happily ever after [ ... ] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.
Jeanne DuPrau
#15. Hate is also creative: it creates more hate.
Henry Dumas
#16. Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Are you ready to shatter the silence?
Share your secrets.
Ellen Hopkins
#17. I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.
Bill Callahan
#18. If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.
Wayne Dyer
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