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Quotes About Clue

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.
~ Donald J. Sobol
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
~ Demetri Martin
No detective ever solved a mystery without the help of a hot jam doughnut.
~ Andy Griffiths
Sometimes when you solve one Mystery, you find another one lurking underneath - a hidden Mystery that you did not suspect at all.
~ Angie Sage
Avoid the 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes - maybe it stops at the surface and won't be an issue, maybe not.
~ Neil Blumenthal
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
~ Michael Ondaatje
To be honest I didn't have a clue that I was the most expensive Scottish player. It's not something that comes into my head.
~ Oliver Burke
It's . . . it's in the apartment.
~ Robert Dugoni
Landry case and—Jesus—didn't someone just send you a
~ Robert Galbraith
like the first had been
~ Robert Galbraith
Because he's not here. Does that answer your question?
~ Robin Cook
saw Spivey.
~ Lee Child
7. El inductor
~ Lee Child
16. El caso (The Affair)
~ Lee Child
The key holds the truth
~ Libba Bray
Little clue: wasted on me." "What?" "I'm into girls." "Oh. Oh!" Chu said. "Right. Got it. That's cool. I've got a cousin who's gay. Amy Liu. Know her?" Jennifer laughed. "Oh, sure. I'll just look her up in the Big Book of Lesbians. We get a copy of that with the purchase of our first flannel shirt.
~ Libba Bray
Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.
~ Libba Bray
Okay then, we're set" he thought. "Come and get it". The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didn't have a fucking clue.
~ Dougie Brimson
Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle
~ Dr. Nicholas Dodman
Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.
~ Richard Francis Burton
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
~ Robert Frost
He pointed to a door.
~ Annie Barrows