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Quotes About Crime

I want you to kill the man that my husband hired to kill the man that I hired to kill my husband.
~ Jeff Strand
I asked one Sicilian if those buildings were made of cheap concrete and he said, Oh, no -this is very expensive concrete. In each batch, there are a few bodies of people who were killed by the Mafia, and that costs money. But it does make the concrete stronger to be reinforced with all those bones and teeth.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Cancer is an ecosystem. It is a crime spree.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
A murdered author was a marketing hook to die for. Jane
~ Elizabeth Young
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.
~ Alfred Russell Wallace
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.
~ Ali Smith
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll probably find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened. And if we don't, we feel cheated.
~ Ali Smith
It has been estimated that one-third of the 139 square miles designated "Detroit" is now vacant-land-prairie. That's crime.
~ Alice Randall
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
~ Alice Sebold
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
~ Alice Sebold
She sighs heavily. "Not surprising. It'd be everywhere if they were rich white girls." Goes back to her keyboard. "Anyway … I hope they catch his sorry ass." "Yeah. Me
~ Alison Gaylin
Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.' 'I got it covered.' 'The DiMarcos might be in town.' 'Actually, they're in jail.' 'All seven of them?' Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.
~ Ally Carter
Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added. "Like the Bulgari job," Hamish said. "You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison?" Kat said. Angus shrugged. "Nobody said it was perfect.
~ Ally Carter
The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.
~ Ally Carter
That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.
~ Ally Carter
Katarina Bishop was a criminal. But she'd never held a gun. She'd never thrown a punch. Until that moment she didn't really know how it felt to hurt someone, and as soon as she saw the look on Hale's face, she wanted to take the words back. And she wished she could make them hurt more. Both.
~ Ally Carter
Katarina Bishop bir suçluydu. Ama o güne dek eline hiç silah almam??t?. Kimseye vurmam??t?. O ana kadar birinin can?n? yakmak nas?l bir ÅŸey, bilmiyordu. Hale'in yüzündeki ifadeyi gördüÄŸünde, sözlerini geri almak istedi. Ayn? zamanda bu sözlerin onun can?n? daha fazla ac?tmas?n? da istedi. (syf. 181)
~ Ally Carter
They have eliminated Mrs Sullivan, Miss Henshaw and Mrs Philpott, for now at least
~ Alys Clare
Tess, someone just dumped a dead body at your back door." "Not again," I moaned. He whirled around. "Not again? What the hell does that mean?" My knees gave out, and I collapsed back against the counter. "That's how I found Jeremiah.
~ Alyssa Day
Cada cual tiene su moral. Juzgo los actos con la vara de medir del placer que proporcionan. El éxtasis voluptuoso es la suprema meta de la existencia, y no necesita justificación alguna. Pero, sin placer, el crimen es un mal gratuito, un sórdido daño. Resulta indefendible.
~ Amelie Nothomb