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Quotes About Cop

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Being from a small town my parents wanted me to become an IAS officer but being an actor I lived the life of everyone. I've been a cop, a hardliner politician, a magician, a watchman, a don, a smuggler, an officer all in one life!
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission.
~ Jed Mercurio
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
~ Danny Boyle
She knew Rollo was trying to intimidate her with the evil eye. Rattle the cop, throw her off balance. He was like too many other assholes she'd known, and his stare was nothing new. Just the last resort of a loser.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Gottlieb's insight was to see the pattern, as opposed to Chalfie, who spotted an opportunity to combine seemingly unrelated ideas, and Markopolos and the young cop, who both homed in on an inconsistency.
~ Gary Klein
This world is full of dangerous beasts—but none quite as ugly and uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of Reason. He will run completely amok—like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling his contraband. Yes
~ Hunter S. Thompson
In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.
~ Ilona Andrews
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
~ Edward Abbey
My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.
~ Natasha Lyonne
A rabbi," Dino said, "is like a mentor. If a cop has a good enough rabbi, he's more likely to be kept out of trouble.
~ Stuart Woods
Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
~ Antony Johnston
On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.
~ Woody Harrelson
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.
~ Kathy Reichs
Have you ever tried making a mess, Catalina?" "I don't make messes, I clean them up." And now I was sounding like a renegade detective from some edgy cop drama. Alessandro shuddered. "Ooh, so hardcore.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sometimes when working on TV, especially when doing procedural cop work, you can refer to your notes. Your notes, of course, do contain, naturally, all the information you need.
~ Adrian Dunbar
It's an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.
~ Jesse Lee Soffer
All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.
~ Ajith Kumar
I guess what makes me feel better are the truly sane: the motorcycle cop in a clean uniform who gives me a ticket and then rides away on two wheels like a man who never had an itchy crotch.
~ Charles Bukowski
The knife-shaped thing sticking out of his throat is drinking greedily; one glance tells Johnny that the cop's beyond help. There's always a cost for using such occult weapons, and Johnny will pay it later, of that he is sure; but for now he's simply relieved to still be alive.
~ Charles Stross
The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.
~ Cheech Marin
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
~ Kin Hubbard
The crowd watched. 'Sir?' said the cop. 'Can you please answer the crazy woman so we can all go home?
~ Kristan Higgins
She'd gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.
~ J.D, Robb