W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
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.
Taylor Sheridan
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino -
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter -
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse -
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
Barry McGuigan -
The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all.
Michael Jackson -
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
Dan Buettner -
Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert