Criminal Minds Quotes

Gideon: What do you see?
Blackwolf: There's a saying: 'Once too much blood has been spilled on the same ground, the ground develops a thirst for it.'

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[Blackwolf examining the dirt of a crime scene]
Reid: I notice you don't carry a gun.
Blackwolf: Twenty-one feet.
Reid: What?
Blackwolf: Ask Agent Hotchner there, he's the real gun-hand.
Hotchner: Why do you say that?
Blackwolf: You carry two guns.
Hotchner: [To Reid] The maximum distance an attacker with a knife can close and the time it takes to react, draw your sidearm, and fire is twenty-one feet.
Blackwolf: Inside twenty-one feet I win. Outside twenty-one, I have other options besides shooting a man.
Reid: Like negotiating.
Blackwolf: Like running.
Hotchner: Why do you say I carry two guns?
Blackwolf: Your right instep print's heavier than your left and since your don't appear to have a clubbed right foot.
Hotchner: You can't tell that from my footprints, there's no perceptible difference between them.
Blackwolf: Your problem isn't with your prints. It's with your perception.

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[Hotch draws his gun]
Blackwolf: Put that away.
Hotchner: What?
Blackwolf: You don't need it. Use your baton.
[Hotch exhales]
Blackwolf: There are many paths to the same place. Trust me.
Hotchner: Just so you know, you sound like a fortune cookie.
[Hotch whips out his baton]

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Gideon: Children?
Hotchner: They're fine. We got them out before they got here. We took down these four.
Reid: Without firing a shot?
Blackwolf: Captain America here shot number five.
Hotchner: You're welcome.
[Hotch and Blackwolf pause to trade looks]
Hotchner: Number six is cut up pretty bad, I don't think he's gonna make it.
Blackwolf: At least I didn't shoot him.
Morgan: Think I'd rather be shot.
Hotchner: There's an old Apache saying: 'You can take many paths to get to the same place.'
[Blackwolf smirks as Hotch walks off]

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Gideon: W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."

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Morgan: Do you have any idea how many cases run through there every year?
Garcia: 122,998.
Hotchner: [after Morgan returns to PD] Do you have any idea how many cases...
Morgan: 122,998 cases a year.

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Hotchner: You’re a genius.
Garcia: You’re just saying that ‘cause it’s true.

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Reid: I'm looking forward to seeing New York.
Morgan: You've never been to New York?
Reid: We've never had an unsub there.
Hotchner: [to Gideon] I thought you were going to talk to Reid about taking some vacation time.
Gideon: What's vacation time?
Morgan: Reid, it's a one hour flight -
JJ: Well if- if we have some time we'll show you around.
Morgan: It's a three hour train ride man.

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Elle: You guys, we're here in New York and even when we aren't talking about our case we end up talking about another profiler.
Hotchner: You’re right. So Elle, you seeing anyone?

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Reid: [to the waitress, after having difficulty with his chopsticks] Excuse me, could I get a fork perhaps? [group laughs] Did you know that experts credit Confucius with the advent of the chopstick? He equated knives with acts of aggression.
Morgan: You don't know how to use them, do ya?
Reid: It's like trying to forage for dinner with a pair of number two pencils.

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Reid: It’s absolutely incredible, 1.3 billion people stay nourished because of these things.

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Officer: So are we looking for an ex-con or some nut job with an Amazon account?

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Female Officer: [after hearing the unsub's profile] So we're looking for a small, angry, white guy with a day job?

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Hotchner: Ok, here's what we know. Blitz attackers are almost always male.
Morgan: Well, he got picked up in the pouring rain by a New York cabbie, so we definitely know he's not a brother.

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Garcia: [answering the phone] Fount of all knowledge, check my flow!

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Gideon: Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
Hotchner: Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."

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Gideon: Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

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Reid: Gideon, there are actually people taking photos of us from the next yard.
Detective Owen Kim: Welcome to LA.

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[Reid is trying unsuccessfully to convince Lila to come out of her swimming pool]
Lila: Really, Spencer, you should live a little.
Reid: Live a little? I've known you for 48 hours and I feel like I've aged 10 years!

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Garcia: [answering phone] Oracle of Quantico. Speak if you deign to hear truth.

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Morgan: [mimicking Lila after she shares Reid's drink] You don't mind sharing with me, do ya?
Reid: Shut up. [turns and walks away]
Morgan: Go get 'em, lover.

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Gideon: One thing I've learned over the years profiling CIA agents, spies are some of the smartest liars in the world. Be smarter.

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Garcia: Hey, you do know what this means? We can find out if Princess Diana's death was really an accident!
JJ: I think that's exactly the kind of thing that got you on that list.

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Reid: [after learning the CIA staged the victim's suicide] Boy, I'm glad not to have that job.

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Garcia: You work for the CIA?
Gideon: Not officially.

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Gideon: George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

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[At an art exhibit, the artist Pinky accompanied by Gideon]
Pinky: One of my earliest works, totally boring.
Gideon: Oh, I don't think so. I mean nothing's just a picture. If viewed correctly--whatever that means--one can see world views, obsessions, manifestations of the subconscious.
Pinky: If I weren't a lesbian, I'd jump your bones. [Gideon has a blank stare] I've always had this thing for middle-aged men and you have these piercing discerning eyes which, remind me of my father who was a shrink, and I'm like, 'I am so hot.' [Pinky is called away by someone] Don't go away. [Pinky walks off]
Lila: [looking at a painting with Reid] This will make you feel anything.
Reid: Like what?
Lila: I can't tell you how to feel.
Reid: Right now I feel pretty good.
Gideon: [walks past Reid] We're leaving.
Reid: We're still looking at the exhibit.
Gideon: Now. [Reid turns to Lila and back to Gideon] Now. Now.
Reid: I guess we're leaving.
Gideon: Reid, now.

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Parker Dunley: Spencer. Spencer Reid. Dude, dude. Look at you. You look just the same. Look at you dude, nothing’s changed. [to Gideon] Spencer was the only twelve year old in our graduating class. [to Reid again] Just the same.

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Reid: Do I look twelve years old to you?
Gideon: Fourteen.

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Gideon: Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."

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