Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Potter

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.

Robert Orben

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

Mark Billingham

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

Bill Toohey

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

Ed McBain

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

Douglas Adams

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

Decio Hopffer

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

Michelle Monaghan

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

Jimmie Lee

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.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Laura Marling

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.