Quotes About Private Detectives

#1. 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

#2. 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

#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. The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Milovan Djilas

#5. As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.

Shakti Gawain

#6. I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

Lena Waithe

#7. Amelia? Let's make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn't bring our work home with us. Okay?"
She smiled. "Deal!

Linda Weaver Clarke

#8. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#9. In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#10. I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.

Kate Upton

#11. I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Libba Bray

#12. When he entered after her, she saw that he meant to come straight to her, and she raised a hand. "No," she said. "Wait."
His footsteps halted. He had always listened to her, hadn't he? Had always heard her."
-Emma and Julian

Meredith Duran

#13. Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

Morgan Earp

#15. I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

Daesung

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

William S. Burroughs

#17. 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

#18. I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

Shirley Jackson

#19. Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

Mac Anderson

#20. 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

#21. The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Julian Clary

#22. Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Sextus Propertius

#23. We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

Charles Jennings

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

Mason Cooley