Detective Warren Quotes & Sayings

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey — William Gaddis

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot

I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process. — Liana Liberato

Ain't no Jesus in Snowtown, Detective. — Warren Ellis

Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct."
"You," said Scarly. "I hate you so much my dick is hard. — Warren Ellis

Chemical reactions weren't supposed to write letters. — Katie M. John

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. — Ron Livingston

The sort of people who intermittently review their children, she thinks, rather than raise them. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry. — Warren Ellis

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two. — Margaret Atwood

[ ... ] a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone. — Warren Ellis

The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing. — Eric Metaxas

Bat stood in the open door and said I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department, you heinous fucking mongoloid, and there is nothing I cannot do. — Warren Ellis

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't. — Deb Caletti

Barbara Fredrickson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina and perhaps the world's leading expert on the subject, describes the ten most common positive emotions: "joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love. — Shawn Achor

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. — John Green

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality. — Wangari Maathai

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in. — Mickey Rooney