Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's like they're harping on it. There's so much crime going on around the neighborhood and around the world, it's like they're glorifying it.

It's going to be quite a complicated scene, each one of the victims represents a mini crime scene, if you will, and then you have the overall apartment.

Joe Clark

That's a crime of opportunity that could be totally prevented.

It's nice on one hand because we have longer to prosecute the crimes. But on the other, we're going to have to find a place to put all of the evidence.

It's sort of a crime scene investigation. There was life here. ... We've got to pull that out.

Sydney Smith

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime

Every criminal defendant on trial now or awaiting sentencing (in cases) involving massive financial crimes should be dancing in the aisles.

Every crime scene, every murder scene, is a heinous crime, but this is one of the worst we've ever seen.

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

Charles Djou

It's one of those things that's a good idea. It's not going to solve our crime or homelessness problems, but it's a small, simple idea that's going to improve quality of life for people.

It just looked like a crime scene photo I've seen over and over,

James Ellroy

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

James Ellroy

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Jesse Ventura

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

Jesse Ventura

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Francois Rabelais

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.

I can't think of another crime with three specific intents. It requires them to look into Jackson's mind.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.

I don't want to diminish the seriousness of any hate crime -- because one hate crime is one too many -- but if there is a silver lining in the numbers here in our jurisdiction, it's that for the most part they were not violent offenses.

I don't mean to minimize the crime of perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors need these tools,

Honore de Balzac

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Jo Nesbo

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Jo Nesbo

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

The law provides a protective order for up to 10 years when this particular crime is alleged,

The loss of life and injury in New Mexico due to alcohol-related crimes has to stop.

Emile Durkheim

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Collective crimes incriminate no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Og Mandino

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

O. J. Simpson

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.