Detect

Famous quotes containing the word detect:

    Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Inspector Clouseau: Do I detect something in your voice that says I am in disfavor with you?
    Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Yes. I wish you were dead.
    Inspector Clouseau: Well, of course, you are entitled to your opinion.
    Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    He planted where the deluge ploughed,
    His hired hands were wind and cloud;
    His eyes detect the Gods concealed
    In the hummock of the field.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)