Detectives Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Alive, Six

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• When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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• Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Offering, Order

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

  John Sandford

  Rain, Flower, Dark

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

  Douglas Adams

  Inquisitive, Paid, Presumptuous

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

  Karel Capek

  Roots, Waiting, Miracle

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• 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

  Humor, Names, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

  Gosho Aoyama

  Believe, Way, Conan

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• 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

  Long, Vomiting, Demon

  Diana Rowland (2011). “Secrets of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Three”, p.202, Penguin

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• Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then I got stabbed and should have died, but instead a bunch of cops and ambulance people showed up because somebody who wasn’t even there sent them on ahead to save my life. If something like that happens to someone like me, you start to have a little faith in something bigger. I don’t know if I believe in magic or miracles all the time. But I believe in you, Detective Walker. I believe in you.

  C.E. Murphy

  Believe, Should Have, People

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• She's so obnoxious. Like a whole Saturday night drunk tank full of obnoxious packed into one little body." Detective Cavuto

  Christopher Moore

  Night, Drunk, Tanks

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

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Age, England

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Names, Say Anything, Triumph

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.527, Race Point Pub

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• I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Ambition, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Worry, Stories, Tonight

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”

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

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Explorers

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting.

  Rainn Wilson

  Life, Fall, Heart

  "Rainn Wilson will make you cringe with ‘Backstrom’" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• 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.

  Ty Cobb

  Swings, Psychology, Bats

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• 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

  Agency, Three, Roles

  "Interview: Jill Scott talks ‘Baggage Claim,’ Auditioning for Anthony Minghella & Acting". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Mother, Humor

  "QI". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, East London

  Source: collider.com

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• Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness'
  however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these
  search the world, looking in a completely different way than
  a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics
  in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will
  best suit your own.

  Seth

  Mind, Desire, Different

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• The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Emotional, Atmosphere

  "The detective's great tapestry" by John Cunningham, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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