Crime Quotes - Page 28

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.