Famous quotes containing the words private detective, private and/or detective:
“Eddie: Who are you soldier?
Philip Marlowe: Marlowe’s my name. I’m a private detective.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“A really good detective never gets married.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)