#detective

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#because #brings #cop #detective #home

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#believe #detective #even #hell #i

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. ↗

— David Lynch

#end #life #like #looking #money

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#concludes #detective #entire #novel #run

Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere—-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it ain’t so easy as you might think—telling a chicken from a Chinaman, I mean. Anyways, they got his weight off his driver’s license, picked up a hundred and thirty pounds of pieces and buried ‘em. Now his wife come every year 'bout this time to pay her respects. We don't serve chicken while she's here. Hope you ain't got a taste for it. ↗

— R.J. Leahy

#fat-chance #humor #mystery #respect

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. ↗

— P. D. James

#detective #detective story #murder #order #restoration

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. ↗

— Nancy McKeon

#county #department #detectives #go #had

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. ↗

— Gosho Aoyama

#inspirational #mystery #inspirational

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective." (Letter, April 19, 1951) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#private-detective #realism #writing #life