Private Investigator Quotes

#1. I have no idea, Jim," Lowen said. "I'm a doctor, not a private investigator.

John Scalzi

#2. But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#3. I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper.

Darynda Jones

#4. My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

Greg Rucka

#5. Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Dee Henderson

#6. As an example, in Texas a licensing law was passed that requires computer-repair technicians to obtain a criminal justice degree or serve a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed private investigator.

Brian Phillips

#7. The huddle included Slim, Tack, Delgado and a local private investigator, Hank Nightingale's brother, Lee Nightingale and Lee's second in command, Luke Stark.

Kristen Ashley

#8. Charley Davidson, Private Investigator, Because No One Is Better At Investigating Your Privates

Darynda Jones

#9. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sara Paretsky

#10. 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

#11. All eyes went there to see Hawk Delgado and Lee Nightingale, another local badass, a private investigator, walking in.

Kristen Ashley

#12. So are we stalking your ex-husband?"
"I'm a licensed private investigator," I said. "I'm licensed to stalk."
"Really?"
"In most cases."
"What about this case?"
"In this case," I said. "We're stalking the hell out of him.

J.R. Rain

#13. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Susan Isaacs

#14. A vampire private investigator?" he repeated. "You're putting me on, right?" "I know you have vampire hit men, so why wouldn't you have vampire private investigators, too?" she flared back. "I can't just run an ad with Nathanial's description on it titled 'Have you seen this soul welsher?

Jeaniene Frost

#15. Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.

Ken Bruen

#16. No wonder Thanksgiving was my favorite - you can't buy it, wrap it, or put it under a tree, and even the greeting card companies can't seem to make a buck off of it. It's just a meal, with people who you love and who love you back, no matter what.

C.I. Dennis

#17. He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.

B.V. Lawson

#18. My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay.

Ed Lynskey

#19. If you want to be a private eye, you have to get used to such things as hideous depression and abject despair.

Arthur Byron Cover

#20. Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.

Jeff Shear

#21. If I was in deep shit with Lilian before, I was snorkeling at the waste treatment plant now.

C.I. Dennis

#22. The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.

William S. Burroughs

#23. Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park

Jill Yesko

#24. We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

John Blaine

#25. I'd spent my whole career dealing with badasses taking care of my nine-month-old boy should be a lark.

C.I. Dennis

#26. Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.

Keri Arthur

#27. Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress

Erle Stanley Gardner

#28. So much for the bimbo alert; if she read books like that, then there was a light on upstairs, above the splendid front porch.

C.I. Dennis

#29. Blood always excites me.

Jonathan Latimer

#30. Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see.

Fuminori Nakamura

#31. 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.
Tea Party Teddy's Legacy

Dianne Harman