Detectives Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

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

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

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

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

Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.

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

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems.

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

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.