Crime Solving Quotes

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

I've been in an Agatha Christie called 'The Sittaford Mystery,' which I enjoyed, but 'The Pale Horse' has a real sense of intrigue and the jigsaw pieces fitting together.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

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

I've been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

There's no police like Holmes.

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.