Top 34 Police Detective Sayings
#1. Mental note when dealing with Mitch: he was a police detective and he had ways of getting information therefore never let your guard down
Kristen Ashley
#2. See, he may come back, sometimes they do, and I hope you don't mind, but I fibbed a little, told the customer she was dating a police detective who never missed a workout. You don't, do you? Ever miss a workout?
Kristen Ashley
#3. Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.
Liisa H. Malkki
#4. She saw a lone figure running across the dark parking lot toward her, a weapon in his hands. ...*Not again.* And this time she was all alone. No Cole Walker, heroic police detective and star in too many of her fantasies, to save her.
Elizabeth Heiter
#5. I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.
James Marsh
#6. From Chapter 1:
The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better.
Ed Lynskey
#7. Bat stood in the open door and said I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do.
Warren Ellis
#8. I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.
Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4)
Mary Calmes
#9. You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer."
"I sometimes think I should have been a good one."
"Why?"
"Because I am patient.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#10. He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
John Green
#11. He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.
Martin Cruz Smith
#12. Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
Cornelia Funke
#13. For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.
Bruno Of Cologne
#14. My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.
Budge Wilson
#15. It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
Safak Pavey
#16. There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.
Jodi Picoult
#17. Like I always say, there's no 'I' in team. There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.
David Shore
#18. I want to mark you. I want to fuck every other guy out of your body until I'm all you feel, all you remember."
~ Ronan
Mia Asher
#19. Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere - a detective raises the roof, figuratively.
Lucy Sussex
#20. The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#21. We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#22. The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!
Donald J. Sobol
#23. We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.
Robert Magarian
#24. Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.
Ben Aaronovitch
#25. My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
Sue Grafton
#26. I'm Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince ...
A.F. Stewart
#29. Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
Mike Tyson
#31. I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty
#32. Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
Otto Penzler
#33. Maybe you're dead inside and don't even know it.
Bryant McGill
#34. Sam's eyes wandered up to the camera again. "Are we being recorded?" "Yes." "Who's watching us right now?" The detective sighed. "A couple of really experienced police officers. Actually, I have no idea. Wave if you want to." Sam lifted a hand and wiggled a few fingers.
Jennifer Hillier
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