Quotes About Crime

To do it right, you need three people," he explained. "One to hold em' up. One to pocket the cash. And one to wait in the car. Like the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hang on a second," he said, cutting himself off. He pulled over to the side of the road, shifted into park, opened the door, leaned his head out and puked. It sounded like he was giving birth through his neck.

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what's going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don't tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

I'm inspired by the fact that for every kid we see committed to crime, there's kids determined to go to uni and not follow their peers.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

I believe in the death penalty.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.

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.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift of the goddess but a crime against God himself, women were believed to be the vessels of love's malign power.

Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.

We police in America in communities of color and economically challenging community, we police based on the behavior of the numerical minority that is committing crime. That small percentage of people who commit crimes in a community becomes the methods that's used for the entire community.

I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.