Detectives Quotations | Page 2

(Arson unit) detectives are currently investigating this as a suspicious fire.

There was police cars everywhere, detectives cars everywhere, there was crime scene tape around this. And for somebody to do this to her, it just an outrage, really.

There was some kind of foul play involved, and evidence surrounding that foul play has led detectives to classify it as a homicide.

It shows the detectives doing their job, doing it properly.

It's going to take a while to gather all the sensitive info and all the evidence. The detectives are conducting a real, real intense investigation just because of the fact that it's such a serious allegation.

There's at least four others that have been implicated initially and the detectives are working very really hard to locate these subjects. We don't know exactly where they may be. They may be in town, in state or perhaps even out of state.

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

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.

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

It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

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

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

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

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.

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

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

The detectives are working the case very hard. They've been canvassing the neighborhood, talking to associates of the family and trying to find any possible leads.

The detectives with our agency followed up every lead they were given.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

I think like a detective.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

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

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

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

A really good detective never gets married.

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

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

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

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.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

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

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.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.