Criminal Minds Quotes

Morgan: My bomb fragments- let’s start putting this bad boy together.
Garcia: Why bother, don’t you just dust for prints and...stuff?
Morgan: [chuckling] Garcia, what are you doing in the FBI?
Garcia: I didn’t get into medical school.
Morgan: Why does that not surprise me?
Garcia: [punches Morgan] Ouch. That's what my father said.

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[Piecing together the bomb]
Garcia: : If there was a longer rod, it could've fit here and gone all the way through...
[Morgan looks at her in surprise]
Garcia: Tetris.

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[Garcia is arranging her lunch nicely and was about to take her first bite]
Morgan: You ready to do some work?
Garcia: [dumps sandwich back onto plate] Why not? I haven't slept this week, might as well give up eating too.
Morgan: Aww, poor baby. Try not to let the tears hit the paper, it gets a little messy.

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Hotch: I spent a good chunk of my childhood looking for a 1944 penny worth thousands.
[everyone stares]
Hotch: Yes, I was a little bit of a nerd, is that so surprising?
Elle: Not to me...

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Gideon: French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. That my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

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Elle: [seeing Reid having trouble blowing out the candles] I thought you were full of hot air, Reid.

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Hotchner: [about Reid] Isn't it amazing he knows what he knows and he's only 24?
Gideon: Imagine what he'll know by fifty.

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Reid: [to Gideon, after JJ says: "Spence, come get your cake"] She's the only person in the whole world who calls me Spence.

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'Talk not of noon! you may as well be mute;
There is no time at all for vain dispute,
Your riches, gold, and garments,jewels bright,
Your house, and land, must on new owners light.' - Death and the Lady by Lesley Nelson-Burns

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Reid: You should see what comes up when you type "death" into a search engine.
Morgan: No wonder you can't find a date.

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Gideon: Finding new ways to hurt each other is what we're good at.

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Morgan: I hate not having a plan. We’re looking for a needle in a haystack.
Reid: Actually, it’s more like we’re looking for a needle in a pile of needles.
Morgan: What?
Reid: A needle would stand out in a haystack.
Morgan: [chuckling] Okay, then we're not looking for someone who stands out.
Reid: No, we're looking for a particular needle, in a pile of needles.
[Morgan gives him a look while he's busy looking through binoculars]

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Reid: Do you think it's weird that I knew that ballad?
Elle: Reid, I don't know how you know half the stuff you know, but I'm glad you do.
Reid: Do you think that's why I can't get a date?
Elle: Have you ever asked anyone?
Reid: [Reid shifts his eyes] No.
Elle: That's why you can't get a date.

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Gideon: There’s someone else on the plane that’s a huge Skins fan.
Reid: Who?
Gideon: The only person in the world who calls you 'Spence.'
Reid: [Looks back after getting up and moves his chess piece] Checkmate

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Gideon: Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."

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Gideon: Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

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[after seeing another agent flirt with Morgan and girls stare at him]
Reid: Must be tough, man.
Morgan: [laughs] Not really.
Reid: What do you mean? You don't DO anything and these women are throwing themselves at you.
Morgan: Strictly off limits, Reid.
Reid: There's no code of conduct that says agents can't socialize.
Morgan: See, my code of survival says never mess with a woman who carries a gun. (The next shot is of Elle Greenway)

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Reid: I don't know everything. I mean, despite the fact that you think I do.
Morgan: I never said that. When have I ever said that?
Reid: Every day since I met you.
Elle: This morning at breakfast.
Hotchner: Yesterday when he beat you at cards, um, we've got one minute.
Morgan: Anybody ever heard of sarcasm?
Elle and Reid: Mmhm.

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Mr. Davenport: [talking to Reid] Excuse me, c-can you actually read that fast?
Reid: Our conscious mind can process sixteen bits of information per second; our unconscious, however, can process eleven million.
[Mr. Davenport glances between Gideon and Reid with a nervous look]
Reid: Yes, I- I really can read this fast.

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Kidnapper: [on the phone] If you hang up, I'll rip her open-
Gideon: I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number. [disconnects the call]
Mr. Davenport: What the hell are you doing?!
Gideon: Saving your daughter, Mr. Davenport.

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Elle: [regarding Cheryl, claiming that she can feel when something is wrong with her twin] You think Cheryl's a whackjob because she says she can feel her sister's anxiety?
Morgan: I never said whackjob.
[Reid walks in]
Reid: Actually, there may be a physiological basis for it: Reuniting with her sister.
Morgan: Don't ask.
Reid: Reversed egg symmetry, eggs split late between nine to twelve days, the DNA matches right down to the last stranded code. There are sporadic documents of shared physiological pain.
Morgan: And you believe it?
Reid: No. I'm just saying it's possible.

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Gideon: Euripides said, "When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."

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Gideon: Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

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Hotchner: Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

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Reid: Look at me, without a gun I look like a teacher's assistant!

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Hotch: You know why they took away Boy Genius' gun?
Philip Dowd: Why?
Hotch: He failed his qualification. Twice a year I gotta listen to him whine about requalifying so I tutored him, and he fails again.
Philip Dowd: You think you got it rough? These people have done nothing but undermine me since I got here.
Hotch: Go next to the barricade. That way, when they blast their way in, both of our problems are solved. This sort of things could ruin a cop's career.
Philip Dowd: You are one sick dude.
Hotch: How do you think I found you?

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Hotch: [to Dowd] Can I ask you a favor?
Philip Dowd: You could ask.
Hotch: I figure the chances of my getting out of here alive are pretty slim.
Philip Dowd: So?
Hotch: [about Reid] I wanna kick the snot out of this kid. He's made my life miserable for three lousy years.
Philip Dowd: Knock yourself out.

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Hotch: [to Reid, as he kicks him in the stomach] I'll school you now, smart guy! It's front sight, trigger press, follow through! It's not that hard; a Dalmatian could do it! Let go. Let go!

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Philip Dowd: [about Hotch kicking Reid] Feel better?
Hotch: I think he got the message.

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Hothchner: [about a head shot Reid accomplished] Nice shot.
Reid: I was aiming for his leg.
Hotchner: Well, I wouldn't have kept kicking, but I was afraid you didn't get my plan.
Reid: I got your plan the minute you moved the hostages out of my line of fire.
Hotchner: Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly.
Reid: Hotch, I was a twelve year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine year-old girl. [tries to return the gun]
Hotchner: No, keep it. As far as I'm concerned, you passed your qualification.

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