Criminal Minds Quotes

[about a possible cipher hidden in one of the Angel Maker's letters]
Rossi: What do you need to crack it?
Reid: The ability to clone myself and a year's supply of Adderall.
Rossi: I'll put on the coffee.

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Hotch: Wendell Berry said, "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

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Reid: "To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin.

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Prentiss: "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand.

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Hotch: Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

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Hotch: Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

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Prentiss: Well, "roadside hotels" definitely go on my list. [No response from Reid or Rossi] Of things to never do again.
Reid: You have a list?
Rossi: You don't?

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[Hotch, JJ and Reid are talking to Garcia via. phone.]
Reid: Thanks Garcia.
Garcia: You, my fine furry friends, are welcome!
[Garcia hangs up]
Hotch: Remind me to have her drug tested.

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Prentiss: "Plenty sit still. Hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb.

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Prentiss: "Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould

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[Reid looks back after watching JJ through a window.]
Prentiss: So, are you considering it?
Reid: Considering what?
Prentiss: Having baby geniuses someday.
[Reid gets a thoughtful look on his face.]

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[on feeling JJ's baby kick]
Reid: Does that freak you out?
JJ: No. Why, does it freak you out?
Reid: Very much so.

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Rossi: What if he's already inside a house?
Hotch: Then we'll find more bodies in the morning.

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Prentiss: So is there anything you want to tell us?
Morgan: Nope.
Prentiss: Your forehead's sweating.
Morgan: No, it's not.
Prentiss: Oh and he's avoiding eye contact!
Reid: His blink rate just sped up.
Morgan: Y'know what, you guys, I don't feel like that burger after all.
Prentiss: You can't run from us!
Morgan: Oh, watch me!
[Morgan waves goodbye as the elevator closes, leaving Reid and Prentiss behind. Prentiss laughs]

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Hotch: Amos Bronson Alcott said, "Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response."

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Reid: Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

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Reid: "What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." Friedrich Nietzsche.

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JJ: If anything happens to us, it's up to you and Garcia to make sure this boy makes it into Yale.
Reid: [to baby Henry] Yale, Henry? You want to go to Yale? That was your godfather's safety school. Don't worry, I can get you into CalTech with one phone call.

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Reid: "There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." Gilbert Parker.

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Rossi: "Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles..." Mark Twain.

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Rossi: "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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[at an FBI recruitment talk given by Rossi and Reid]
Student: [to Rossi] What did you study?
Rossi: Criminal justice, although "sports appreciation" was full up at my community college. [gestures to Reid]
Reid: I hold doctorates in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Engineering. I also have BAs in Psychology and Sociology.
[everyone gapes at him]
Another student: How old are you?
Reid: Twenty-seven, as of last month.

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[during a lecture at a school about joining the FBI]
Reid: [after telling about the studies he's undergone] I'm also completing an additional BA in Philosophy. Which reminds me that I have a joke.
[Rossi looks at him sceptically]
Reid: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Rossi: [whispers] Don't.
Reid: : Two. One to change the light bulb, and one to observe how it symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in another world of cosmic nothingness.
[chuckles, the group remains silent]
Reid: [awkwardly] An existentialist...
Rossi: [interrupts] Okay, before he does his quantum physics knock-knock joke [the group laughs] do we have any other questions about opportunities in the FBI?

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[after the lecture]
Rossi: You do know that we actually want them to join the Bureau?
Reid: What? Yeah.
Rossi: We want these kids to think it's a cool place to work.
Reid: I understand that...
Rossi: [referring to Reid's existentialist joke] Existentialism?
Reid: Existentialism is known as...
Female Student: Hey? Reid.
Reid: [absent-mindedly] Hi. [continues speaking to Rossi] That was a funny joke, what do you mean?
Rossi: Yeah, to Sigmund Freud.
Reid: I tell them they shouldn't send me here and they keep sending me here, I don't know why.
Rossi: Because you're young.
Reid: "Young" or "Jung"?
Prof Rothchild: [butts in] Dr Reid, wouldn't they sit in the dark and hope that the bulb decided to light again?
Reid: Excuse me?
Prof Rothchild: An existentialist would never change the bulb, he would allow the darkness to exist.
Reid: [realizes] Yeah, that's pretty good.

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Prof Rothchild: [upon being told that Reid has more important things to do than interview him] You have something more important than me?
Rossi: My dry-cleaning is more important than you.

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Prof Rothchild: [after being told his rights by Morgan] Next time, bring Dr. Reid back with you.
[outside the interrogation room]
Reid: I never have any normal fans...

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Prentiss: Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars."

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[Reid has taken Morgan's advice and done a magic trick to charm the bartender, Austin, and show her the sketch of their UnSub]
Austin: Okay, how'd you do that?
Reid: That's privileged information.
Austin: So...what should I do if I see him [the UnSub]?
Reid: You should definitely call us. Even if you just think you see him, you should call us.
Austin: [smiling flirtatiously] And if I don't see him?
Reid: Excuse me?
Austin: Can I still call you?
Reid: [squeakily] Yeah. Yeah, you can call me.
Austin: Cool. [Reid turns to leave] Oh wait...I don't have your number.
Reid: Oh, it's behind your barrette.
[Austin reaches into her hair and pulls out Reid's card. He smiles and leaves. She watches him go, smirking]
Morgan: See? That's what I'm talking about. That's called Game!

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Jordon: Is, um, this the guy you were telling me about?
Prentiss: Viper, meet SSA Jordon Todd from the BAU, Jordon this is Viper, God's gift to women.
Jordon: Wow; God sure has a sense of humour.

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Rossi: P. J. O'Rourke wrote, "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."

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