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Quotes About Clue

Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have
~ Ford Madox Ford
mystery to solve.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
In another five minutes they reached a tiny village which consisted of a general store, a garage, a church, and a few homes. Frank parked the car. "Peaceful-looking place," he remarked. "I wonder if we'll find a clue here.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.
~ John Updike
The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
~ David Hewson
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
~ Elif Batuman
Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it's give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.
~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.
~ Ann Cleeves
As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart...
~ John Burnside
Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.
~ John Connolly
I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again.
~ John Dickson Carr
paperchase. And it is on a deduction drawn from
~ John Dickson Carr
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
~ Edward Flaherty
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
"… the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.""The dog did nothing in the nighttime.""That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I feel like I'd be good at 'Password.' Or 'Pyramid.'
~ Riki Lindhome
I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Only narcissists and Heroes stood unwavering against the odds. Most rational people got a clue and found their bearings.
~ Gardner Dozois
what about Erwin Chargaff's tantalising match of the base ratios, A = T and C = G? Is this just another of nature's coincidences? Or is it a vital clue that will somehow make sense of the whole sorry mess?
~ Gareth Williams
Initially, when I'd heard of 'Teen Wolf,' I had never actually sat down to watch the series. But during my audition process, before I had a clue that I would even be considered, I started watching the show to get a feel for it and to see what type of show it was.
~ Arden Cho
I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
~ Martin Landau
Nothing happened when I pressed the bellpush. I knocked on the door. Slowly, like twin bodies being dragged, footsteps approached the other side of it.
~ Ross MacDonald
physical evidence linking
~ Ann Rule