Quotes About Detectives

#1. My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.

John Darnielle

#2. Honey, what's the Detective doing here?"

"Tag, you never told me Wayne was so funny!"

"Wayne?"

"That's me. Most detectives also have first names.

Jules Cassard

#3. A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Charley Pride

#4. Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.

Simon Kernick

#5. I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

George Eads

#6. Unless your goal is to train your readers to be detectives, only the details necessary to give the reader an idea of the scene should be included.

Kat Duncan

#7. I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

Nathan Fillion

#8. They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

Jack Paar

#11. When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

Kerry Greenwood

#12. Sarek looked up with something like hope in his eyes. "I must say," he said, "I am impressed. You are quite a detective, Doctor." "All doctors are detectives. All the ones worth their salt, anyway. . . ." "I will get you as much salt as you want, Doctor," Sarek said,

Diane Duane

#13. I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.

Michael Connelly

#14. A half-dozen or so FBI techies and LAPD homicide detectives were still on the scene. The latest Pearl Jam played from somebody's radio. The lead singer seemed to be in terrible pain.

James Patterson

#15. Why, he's Hercule Poirot! You know who I mean - the private detective. They say he's done the most wonderful things - just like detectives do in books.

Agatha Christie

#16. At one point during the Holmes investigation Chicago's chief of police told a Tribune reporter he'd just as soon have a squad of reporters under his command as detectives.

Erik Larson

#17. Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

George Santayana

#18. I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

Celestine Sibley

#19. I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Malik Yoba

#20. Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

Robert Stack

#21. 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

#22. I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

Robert Mueller

#23. The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic about it, the old gray man with his walking stick, venturing out, into the snow, out of frame and away, like an ancient word stepping off a page.

Colum McCann

#24. Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed
you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Jasper Fforde

#25. I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers.

Walter Mosley

#26. A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian - solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It's what doctors most love to do.

Lisa Sanders

#27. It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases.

Alan Bradley

#28. I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

Peter Ackroyd

#29. The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.

Aleksandar Hemon

#30. You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?

Agatha Christie

#31. As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.

NisiOisiN

#32. The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Michael Ealy

#33. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.

Jules Verne

#34. What was she doing here? Private detectives were for insecure housewives, parents of troubled teens, bent old ladies who'd forgotten where they parked. She was none of the above. She was a sane, stable, capable adult. Yet here she was.
Desperate times, and all that.

Laura Oliva

#35. I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

Nathan Fillion

#36. Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

Nancy McKeon

#37. How can I take crime shows seriously where the female detectives track killers in Louboutin heels?

Toni Morrison

#38. Literary critics make natural detectives.

A.S. Byatt

#39. One of the detectives was later heard to comment that Perry Reed was officially in more trouble than any other single human being he'd ever encountered in the course of his entire career....

John Connolly

#40. ...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate--

Jacqueline Girdner

#41. I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the homicide detectives there."
- Gabriella Giovanni, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

Kristi Belcamino

#42. In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

Mark Billingham

#43. The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

Rick Smolan

#44. laptop that the detectives said contained her

Betta Ferrendelli

#45. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results. Her

Joe Hill

#46. Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.

Patti Smith

#47. In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

Aaron Starmer

#48. I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.

P.G. Wodehouse

#49. It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After

Dorothy L. Sayers

#50. The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.

Rob Thomas

#51. Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels
chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#52. Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

Nina Tassler

#53. I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

Tony Revolori

#54. I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Deb Caletti

#55. People are like detectives in their relations, they eventually find what they are searching for.

Umut Kisa

#56. I think you should try to keep the details of our investigation secret." "Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Cassandra Clare

#57. So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of.

Dashiell Hammett

#58. I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Isabel Allende

#59. Grace shivered even though it was hot out, because that's what detectives do in detective books.

Ella Minster

#60. Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

Usain Bolt

#61. The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#62. Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#63. It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Harvey Keitel

#64. You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

David Lynch

#65. My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Bernie Mac

#66. An unmarked cop car carrying Mitch Lawson and Brock Lucas, both detectives with the DPD.

Kristen Ashley

#67. I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#68. Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Cassandra Clare

#69. But at that critical moment, detectives knew there was no way they could get to JFK in time from the hotel in midtown Manhattan.

John Solomon

#70. I came to realize that detectives and shoemakers see the world from beneath, both focusing more on the footsteps that have strayed away from their intended path than the path itself.

Pablo De Santis

#71. Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Paul Guilfoyle

#72. Belson came into the apartment with some crime-scene people and two homicide detectives.

"This guy," Charlie said, and looked at his notebook, "Spenser. He was impersonating a police officer."

Belson glanced at him. "We all thought that," Belson said, "when he was a cop.

Robert B. Parker

#73. What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

Theo James

#74. The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

Robert Baden-Powell

#75. The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

Barry White

#76. I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh. "Why couldn't you simply be an alcoholic like all the other detectives?"
I grinned. "Demon summoning has less vomiting!

Diana Rowland

#77. And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

Nic Pizzolatto

#78. The detectives who stayed positive, who carried hope in their hearts, were the ones most likely to have stamina.

James Patterson

#79. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

Matthew McConaughey

#80. We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.

Jay Stringer

#81. Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Mason Cooley

#82. It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Stefania Mattana

#83. To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

Robert Kiyosaki

#84. Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Will Thomas

#85. You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

Raymond Chandler

#86. Jensen looked concerned.
"I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?"
He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.

Katherine Bayless

#87. When I auditioned with Anthony Minghella (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), I loved the audition process, although I hated him for it. Because he had me audition six times for that role. Maybe three hours each. He wanted to see how quickly I could vary.

Jill Scott

#88. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Agatha Christie

#89. We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said.

Robert B. Parker

#90. I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.

Brian Pinkerton

#91. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Mac Barnett

#92. I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Agatha Christie

#93. You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me."
Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?"
"Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

Robert B. Parker

#94. I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#95. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#96. Something not from earth," Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. "Live long and prosper.

A.E. Jones

#97. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#98. In detective stories ... I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but ... there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

Bertrand Russell

#99. What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.

Vincent Buranelli

#100. Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of balance to tackle her. They crashed to the ground.
"Why are you running from the ball, Cinderella?" he asked.

Stefania Mattana