Top 1200 Detective Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.

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

We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.

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

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.

I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.

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.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and themes and even using certain words or images recurrently in my work, no matter how much I think I'm starting fresh. But I've always admired artists who made a specific sport of trying to visit different kinds of genres or mediums or modes - not just 'western' or 'detective', but comedy/tragedy, epic and miniature, traditional/experimental.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

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.

I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose.

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

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.