Criminal Minds Quotes
Jamaican Cop: Where is the victim’s head!?
Elle: Well, I must have dropped it on my way in here.
Elle: Well, I must have dropped it on my way in here.
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Killer: [on videotape] You will understand why it must be this way. You may even thank me.
Elle: Don't hold your breath, scumbag.
Elle: Don't hold your breath, scumbag.
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Gideon: "The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." -French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.
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Hotchner: He's delusional. He thinks he's a mythological king.
Gideon: But delusion and this level of organization are almost mutually exclusive.
Gideon: But delusion and this level of organization are almost mutually exclusive.
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Reid: [discussing a Chaucer poem] My mom used to read me that. It's widely considered as the first Valentine's poem.
Garcia: Your mom read you Valentine's poems? Hello, therapy.
Garcia: Your mom read you Valentine's poems? Hello, therapy.
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[After the room the unsub was in blows up setting the building on fire]
Hotchner: What the hell was that?
Reid: He had a bomb.
Morgan: You didn't think we needed to know that?
Reid: I told you to go downstairs.
Morgan: You didn't say "bomb!"
Hotchner: What the hell was that?
Reid: He had a bomb.
Morgan: You didn't think we needed to know that?
Reid: I told you to go downstairs.
Morgan: You didn't say "bomb!"
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Reid: "It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." -Rose Kennedy.
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Gideon: Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
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[After the team has just caught a pedophile who was auctioning off a seven year old child]
Katie: Peter's real name is Dustyn Powers. He abducted him in Newark, New Jersey when he was one.
Gideon: Sometimes it seems there's no punishment enough.
Katie: Peter's real name is Dustyn Powers. He abducted him in Newark, New Jersey when he was one.
Gideon: Sometimes it seems there's no punishment enough.
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Gideon: Mark Twain wrote, "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
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Reid: Strange in this case the abused actually became the abuser.
Garcia: Doesn't happen a lot?
Reid: One in eight.
Garcia: We found the one.
Garcia: Doesn't happen a lot?
Reid: One in eight.
Garcia: We found the one.
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Joey Daven: This is my third strike, I am not going down for this [draws a gun]
Morgan: whoa whoa whoa! [draws gun, Gideon sloooowly draws his gun, then the officer shoots Joey Daven]
Officer: I had to do it, he wouldn't put the gun down
Morgan: He didn't want that third strike.
Morgan: whoa whoa whoa! [draws gun, Gideon sloooowly draws his gun, then the officer shoots Joey Daven]
Officer: I had to do it, he wouldn't put the gun down
Morgan: He didn't want that third strike.
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Hotchner: Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote, "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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Hotchner: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -Oscar Wilde
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Hotchner: Well there's one thing I didn't tell the trainees.
Gideon: What's that?
Hotchner: We don't get paid enough.
Gideon: You got that right.
Gideon: What's that?
Hotchner: We don't get paid enough.
Gideon: You got that right.
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Hotchner: It doesn't make sense, they're children.
Gideon: He's playing out a fantasy.
Hotchner: Yes, but it's his fantasy and it's someone else's children.
Gideon: He's playing out a fantasy.
Hotchner: Yes, but it's his fantasy and it's someone else's children.
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Garcia: Uhm, pals, don't be ticked, but I think I might have missed the glaringly obvious; how would you make yourself taller without being a different person entirely or having some weird Chinese surgery?
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Hotchner: It took you nine minutes to call 911.
Bank Manager: I was collecting the tapes.
Hotchner: Before you called 911?
Bank Manager: I was collecting the tapes.
Hotchner: Before you called 911?
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Garcia: Hey, I got four bank robberies worth of security footage, what do you want me to do with them?
Hotchner: You know your digital perspect whatever software?
Garcia: Digital Perspective Analysis rendering?
Hotchner: Yeah.
Garcia: Honey not only do I know it, I helped develop it.
Hotchner: You know your digital perspect whatever software?
Garcia: Digital Perspective Analysis rendering?
Hotchner: Yeah.
Garcia: Honey not only do I know it, I helped develop it.
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Garcia: [after Hotchner asked her to review surveillance footage] Honey, if he opens his mouth I'll tell you the length of his teeth.
Hotchner: Just keep it clean. And don't call me "honey."
Hotchner: Just keep it clean. And don't call me "honey."
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Hotchner: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." -Milan Kundera
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Morgan: Oh, one last thing. Look up the words "sexy" and "brilliant" in that computer of yours, and tell me what you come up with.
Garcia: Look at that, it's me.
Morgan: You are a goddess, woman. Ciao. [to surrounding fertility clinic patients, most of whom are paying rapt attention] ...It was a work call.
Garcia: Look at that, it's me.
Morgan: You are a goddess, woman. Ciao. [to surrounding fertility clinic patients, most of whom are paying rapt attention] ...It was a work call.
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Gideon: Doesn't anybody ever go home?
Elle: You're here.
Gideon: Exactly. Trust me, you don't want to model your social life on mine.
Elle: You're here.
Gideon: Exactly. Trust me, you don't want to model your social life on mine.
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Callahan: I figured you wouldn't be sleeping either.
Gideon: What are you doing here?
Callahan: I took a room on the hall.
Gideon: You live four blocks away.
Callahan: Exactly. Why be separated from the work?
Gideon: What are you doing here?
Callahan: I took a room on the hall.
Gideon: You live four blocks away.
Callahan: Exactly. Why be separated from the work?
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Reid: Elle, he's dead. You're-- you're right here. You won.
Elle: [holds up glass] Then here's to winning.
Elle: [holds up glass] Then here's to winning.
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Morgan: I'd like to make a request.
Garcia: With that sultry voice? You name it.
Garcia: With that sultry voice? You name it.
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