Gumshoes Quotes

#1. If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan.

Val McDermid

#2. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear

Sherry Thomas

#3. It was a country life, a precious existence.

Fennel Hudson

#4. The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Karl Popper

#5. Human beings are not houses - you don't walk in and say, 'Well, so long as we gut the kitchen and add a third bathroom, this could work,' or, 'It has no charm, but it's close to work and it's all I can afford.' No. You love them as they are, or you let them find someone else who does.

Sara Eckel

#6. I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

John Keegan

#7. Simplify the complicated, untangle the tangled, follow the threads, to the heart of the matter.

Jane Teresa Anderson

#8. Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.

Tamra Davis

#9. My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

G. Willow Wilson

#10. If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

Bryant McGill

#11. Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Bob Uecker

#12. Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident.

Nicola Sturgeon

#13. I'm not sure I want to go to prom. I'm not sure I want to share you with anyone.

Jennifer L. Armentrout