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.

Karin Slaughter

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no uncriminal crimes.

Publilius Syrus

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

Preet Bharara

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Crime generally punishes itself.

Hannah More

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)

Exculpatory evidence would tend to support an inference that the defendant is not guilty of the crime that is charged,

L. Ron Hubbard

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

L. Ron Hubbard

There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

Karl Kraus

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Emma Goldman

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

John F. Kerry

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

Livy

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Ludivine Sagnier

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

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,

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.

Park Dietz

as most episodes of other crime dramas aired for the last 20 years.

Jodie Foster

It's kind of about a vigilante, somebody who has been the victim of a crime and who can't quite get over it and then finds herself mowing people down.

It's encouraging to see that the Police Department is tackling this epidemic of murder and violent crime head-on,

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely helpless,

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

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.