Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

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.

Decio Hopffer

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

John Walsh

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

Hugh Graf

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

Carolyn Wells

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

Charley Pride

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.

Ann Clwyd

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.

A. S. Byatt

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Agatha Christie

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

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Yadira Gomez

We had to get more outlets installed outside the house. We installed enough for all the lights.

Mignon McLaughlin

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

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.