Detectives Quotations

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

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.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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.

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

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 work as a private detective years and years ago.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

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

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

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

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.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

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.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

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

One of our detectives saw this guy and thought he seemed a little bit more real than the next kid and it was enough to launch an investigation.

One of our detectives was investigating the possibility that he was violating the restraining order. After talking to him and other witnesses, he was arrested.

My concern is we're attacking the detectives in front of the media,

On 'Law & Order,' the one sending the detectives out is a black woman which also gives you something because a lot of women aren't usually seen in these roles as well.

Police spoke to people inside and outside of the bar regarding the incident, and they refused to give any information, ... And also when county detectives spoke to them, they refused to give any information.

Obviously, it touches detectives and officers in a special way when you're talking about people who cannot fight back, who cannot defend themselves against someone like this.

(Moeller) spent the evening late last night and into the early morning hours with our detectives and has been cooperating with us so far.

I was always concerned. The detectives and prosecutors were also, when I was talking with their informants,

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

When he showed up, expecting another easy mark, the detectives were waiting with handcuffs.

He was forthcoming, but with that said, he revealed nothing to detectives that's not publicly known. Still, although he is not a suspect, he has not yet been ruled out.

He's been photographed from every angle. But detectives still have no idea who they are chasing, or how he got away with more than a half-million dollars.

Just yesterday, detectives filled in 20 minutes. They talked with someone, and they are still talking with witnesses.

Our position is that our reporter will not testify to the district attorney or be interviewed by the district attorney or detectives from the District Attorney's Office. The Times Leader and its reporters are not investigators for the prosecution or the defense in any case; they are simply news reporters.

I think what the detectives are looking to do is just basically enhance the chain of custody of that gun for evidentiary purposes.

We know now he was shot once and our gang unit detectives were called to this incident.

I would not have made that statement without having spent a great deal of time speaking to my senior detectives and my senior analysts,

We've got sheriff detectives trying to bring him back into custody, we have been in contact with him, he knows he was erroneously released. The statement he gave is that he needed a few days to think about it, but we have asked him to come back into custody.

We had a lot of circumstantial evidence and a lot of inconsistencies with both her statement to detectives and written statement. After dissecting both of those, we were able to disprove what she told us." ()

We had information that she was seen there and that she was alive and she was being held against her will. Detectives working the case interviewed that person and that person apparently gave them enough information to make them concerned.

the fact a court suppressed a statement does not necessarily mean our detectives did anything wrong.

We did get a report from the detectives that his credit cards haven't been used and there's been no activity in his bank account.

You see, but you do not observe.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

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

You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

We very much look forward to working with Scotland Yard detectives to ensure that any possible technical or evidential obstacles to moving swiftly towards an indictment are removed -- hopefully in the next few months.

The defendant himself admitted to detectives he was the one that pulled the trigger.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

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

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

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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

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

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

We do have disease detectives who are working to study some features of the outbreak so we can learn as the virus spreads from community to community.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

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.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

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.

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

Crime does make for some strange bedfellows. But in the end, it is our own detectives who wind up making the case.

When the detectives came into the hospital and looked at me, they said they knew Michael (Cutler). They knew him very well. He had a history with them. That's all they said to me.

The victim has become very uncooperative. He won't provide any more information to the detectives and some of the details he has given have been very inconsistent. It's gotten to the point where he doesn't want to deal with us anymore. We've tried everything.

We say it, but it's true: Homicide cases are never closed. When a homicide occurs, there is not statute of limitations. The files are never closed. Detectives and law enforcement continue to work those cases.

We'll have to wait until we get the exact funds to see how we'll use it, ... However, our focus is on unincorporated areas. And then we'd use it on countywide services, such as the crime lab, homicide, detectives and things like technology.

We'll have to wait until we get the exact funds to see how we'll use it. However, our focus is on unincorporated areas. And then we'd use it on countywide services, such as the crime lab, homicide, detectives and things like technology.

Two people could have been dead, ... These detectives deserve a lot of credit. You say the wrong thing, you could put someone, literally in this case, over the edge.

Detectives are creating databases of prostitutes and their customers and reviewing the information.

Detectives are working with Palace personnel and their phone provider in an attempt to identify the person who called in the threat,

Detectives did a very good job. We don't question why things happen.

Detectives did take a statement today and Gilmer did claim his involvement in the incident. His statement tied up some loose ends in the investigation for detectives, however investigation is still ongoing. It is possible additional arrests will be made,

Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses in this case. One told us that Matthew had spoke to the witness and told them that he was involved in the stabbing the victim.

Once the offer was made for cash, detectives stepped in.

A vehicle with some subjects drove by and fired shots toward the business, striking the owner in the leg and striking a customer, a second victim, in the shoulder. This morning we discovered that the owner, who has been identified as Mildred Reid Francis, (who was) 41 years of age, has died at Jackson Memorial Hospital, therefore the homicide detectives are currently taking over the investigation.

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.

Right now, the Plano police detectives as well as FBI agents are coordinating their investigation.

Our detectives are interviewing the parents of the two children we found, to see whether they can't throw any light on the subject ... At the moment we have no leads.

Our detectives have been following up on looking into the victim's background and who his associates are. Just trying to find out where he might have been, who might have seen him,

Our detectives were in contact with a (Copeland) family attorney from the Quakertown area Monday, who gave us some indication that he would turn himself in (Tuesday),

Our detectives were very concerned. This was a recipe for disaster.

Our detectives worked very hard on this, ... There was no smoking gun. It took a real team effort.

During the past two years, Harford County Sheriff's detectives exhausted every resource in trying to identify Leone, ... We sent lookouts and teletypes to police agencies, and federal law enforcement agencies, issued news releases and searched missing person databases for anyone who resembled her.

The only thing we are going to say is that we are actively investigating this case. We have seven detectives working full-time on this case.

In April of 1986, Aaron Patterson was tortured by Area 2 Violent Crimes detectives, under the direct supervision and with the active participation of Commander (Jon) Burge. The record in Mr. Patterson's case shows that he was one of the last of the approximately 60 known victims who have alleged torture by Chicago Police detectives at Area 2 Police Headquarters from 1972 to 1986.

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

The investigation is still open. Interviews are being conducted, and detectives are working with the state attorney for a resolution.

In the mysteries project we turn students into historian detectives and invite them to do the exciting work of history. Normally, we tell students what happened when we teach history, but in this project we ask them to tell us,

Invariably, the detectives (investigating the case) found the deceased were made younger and healthier on paper.

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

The clerk working at the jewelry store had a gut feeling that something wasn't right. Our detectives were able to contact New York authorities.

The hiring of those new detectives is not specifically in response to the spike in murders we are seeing this year, but it certainly comes at a good time for the homicide unit.

You know Lori, there's some questions the detectives just can't answer, that only the sheriff can address. We have called repeatedly and have asked for a return call to maybe schedule a meeting and unfortunately, we haven't gotten one.

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

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

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

For him to make that comment is probably not thoughtful, right now. We're still looking into the possibility, following all the leads, interviewing the witnesses, doing the things detectives do to try to break a case.