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Quotes About Alibi

A girl gives her boyfriend an alibi for the evening when we suspect him of robbing a north-side Centra and stabbing the clerk. I flirt with her at first, telling her I can see why he would want to stay home when he's got her; she is peroxided and greasy, with flat, stunted features of generations of malnutrition, and privately I am thinking that if I were her boyfriend I would be relieved to trade her even for a hairy cellmate named Razor.
~ Tana French
I'm glad I have a concrete thing to blame this on, something everyone can point a finger at.
~ Ned Vizzini
I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.
~ James Ellroy
I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, I did it because I'm a dirty dog. This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We all have some proper noun to blame.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I explained all this to the police, but they didn't seem too convinced.
~ Laura Durham
Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.
~ Charles Dickens
science teacher. "The police had me in custody, an innocent man, a victim of circumstances, and because they had no evidence at
~ James Patterson
if the writers of these four books had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury
~ Thomas Paine
There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
~ Hannah Arendt
There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect Stephanie
~ Janet Evanovich
It wasn't my fault.
~ Janet Evanovich
Dells is playing a dangerous game right now. If he's not careful, he'll run out of road. Charlton is not someone you want to mess with. My advice? Do what you would do if you were writing about anyone else. Work through that alibi. If the Anderson kid lied, write it the way you see it. Don't worry about the games the bosses are playing. But be right. "Or they will hang you out to dry.
~ Christi Daugherty
Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi
~ Leonard Cohen
Beaubourg illustrates very well that an order of simulacra only establishes itself on the alibi of the previous order. Here, a cadaver all in flux and surface connections gives itself as content a traditional culture of depth. An order of prior simulacra (that of meaning) furnishes the empty substance of a subsequent order, which, itself, no longer even knows the distinction between signifier and signified, nor between form and content.
~ Jean Baudrillard
an intruder wearing a Mexican alibi.
~ Paul Theroux
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....
~ Edmund Crispin
Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.
~ Unknown
Love is the way that life forgets that it is terminal. Love is life's alibi in the face of death.
~ Unknown
The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.
~ Lisa Kleypas
by Sergeant McGann, Deemer went to Massachusetts. A check of the time cards at the auto company in Sheffield revealed that Pickett's last workday was August 1, eight days before the homicides. Moreover, though two stores in Marlboro sold Buck knives, neither had ever stocked this particular model. Pickett's status as a
~ Vincent Bugliosi