Detectives Quotes - Page 9

• There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

  Alistair Cooke

  Book, Golf, Games

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.135, Arcade Publishing

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• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

  Rex Stout

  Libro, Escritura, Dos

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• Me encantan las telenovelas: las historias, las tramas. Y me encantan los concursos, los dramas judiciales y los detectives: Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo', 'Perry Mason', 'L.A. Law'. Cualquier sentimiento de culpa me atrae en un programa de televisión: un sentimiento de culpa o un sentimiento de ganar mucho dinero.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Drama, Derecho, Juegos

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• Espinacas y champán. Volver a las cocinas del viejo Waldorf. Bailar en las mesas de la cocina, llevando el gorro de cocinero. Finalmente, un choque y ser escoltado fuera por los detectives de la casa.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Baile, Casa, Cocina

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• I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

  Ryan Gosling

  Crecer, Niños, Chicos

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• One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

  David Oyelowo

  Friendship, Black, Actors

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• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
  I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
  LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
  I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
  Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
  I was to blame, my life never been the same.
  A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
  My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
  Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
  Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  Kool Keith

  Hurt, Pain, Rap

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• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Special, Quality

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• Todos los hombres que han existido anhelan la felicidad perfecta, reflexionó conmovedoramente el detective. Pero ¿cómo podemos tenerla cuando sabemos que vamos a morir? Cada alegría se veía empañada por el conocimiento de que acabaría. ¿Así que la naturaleza había implantado en nosotros el deseo de algo inalcanzable? No. No puede ser. No tiene sentido. Cualquier otro esfuerzo implantado por la naturaleza tenía un objeto correspondiente que no era un fantasma. ¿Por qué esta excepción? razonó el detective. Era la naturaleza creando hambre cuando no había comida. Continuamos. Continuamos. Así la muerte probó la vida.

  William Peter Blatty

  Hombres, Perfectos, Alegría

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• I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.

  Samuel Barnett

  Witty, Crazy, Smart

  Fuente: collider.com

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• In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Daily Activities, Agency

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• Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

  Jack Paar

  Crazy, Kids, Blood

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• I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

  Robert Winston

  Watches, Spirals, Brutal

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• Empecé en la vida como poeta, sólo escribía poesía durante mis 20 años, no fue hasta los 30 cuando me puse en serio a escribir prosa. Mientras escribía poemas, a menudo me entretenía leyendo novelas policíacas, me gustaban.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Writing, Serious

  "Entrevista de Big Think con Paul Auster". Entrevista con Austin Allen, bigthink.com. 5 de noviembre de 2009.

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• I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit more style. But, on the whole, I feel Batman - a stoic, methodical, detective - is better served a wee bit reserved. And, I'm anything but comfortable. Zero Year is pressure, man.

  Greg Capullo

  Zero, Men, Years

  Fuente: www.ign.com

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• Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

  Thomas Jane

  Space, Fiction, Noir

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big 'ole brown eggs. Like, you didn't have to be a detective to figure it out. 'Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream?

  Arj Barker

  Dream, Block, Halloween

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• If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

  Clint Eastwood

  Cowboy, San Francisco, Careers

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Fighting, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Lasts

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.

  John Nettles

  Block, Giving, Wife

  Fuente: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, Thinking, Islands

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• La verdad es que todo hombre inteligente, como usted sabe, sueña con ser un gángster y gobernar la sociedad sólo por la fuerza. Como no es tan fácil como hacen creer las novelas policíacas, uno suele confiar en la política y se afilia al partido más cruel.¿Qué importa, al fin y al cabo, si humillando a la propia mente se consigue dominar a todo el mundo? Descubrí en mí mismo dulces sueños de opresión.

  Albert Camus

  Sueño, Dulce, Fiesta

  Albert Camus (2012). "La caída", p.55, Vintage

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• Siempre me he sentido un poco incómodo con la pregunta [por qué escribo estas historias]. No es una pregunta que se le haría a un tipo que escribe historias de detectives o de misterio, o westerns, o lo que sea. Pero sí se le hace al escritor de historias de terror porque parece que hay algo desagradable en nuestro amor por las historias de terror, o los boogies, los fantasmas y los duendes, los demonios y los diablos.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

  Entrevista con Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. Julio de 1987.

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• Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

  Usain Bolt

  Lying, Matter, No Matter What

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