All Quotes

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
‐‐ Bill James

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
‐‐ Stieg Larsson

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
‐‐ Camilla Lackberg

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
‐‐ Bill James

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.
‐‐ Jon Polito

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
‐‐ Dick Francis

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.
‐‐ Sharon Bolton

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
‐‐ George Farquhar

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
‐‐ Kathleen Turner

Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.
‐‐ Armand Deutsch

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
‐‐ Jean Genet

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
‐‐ Max Stirner

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
‐‐ Robert Shapiro

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.
‐‐ Jamey Sheridan

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
‐‐ Jacob Zuma

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Criminals don't care what the law is.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

Criminals take advantage of weak laws, like giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
‐‐ Akhmad Kadyrov

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Crises are challenges, not calamities.
‐‐ Guy Verhofstadt

Crises are harbingers of evolution.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
‐‐ Thomas Kuhn

Crisper is great. The future of gene therapy looks bright.
‐‐ Liz Parrish

Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.
‐‐ Thomas F. Wilson

Cristin Milioti! Who you might know from 'How I Met Your Mother' or 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' A pure delight.
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
‐‐ Paulo Freire

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
‐‐ Andrew Zuckerman

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
‐‐ Hartley William Shawcross

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
‐‐ Nathaniel Rich

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
‐‐ Steve Vai