Quotations Weblog

Once again, here are the quotations featured in last week’s episode of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

I’m not sure about the authenticity of either of these, but we did have both in our database before the show. The Gandhi quotation was worded slightly differently on the show, but they do tend to edit them for length, so this version is likely more accurate.

See our TV category for previous Criminal Minds quotations.

Every week, we bring you the quotations used in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. Here’s the one from the beginning of this week’s episode:

The show used the word “prize” rather than “throne,” which I’m assuming was an attempt to make it sound more applicable to modern situations, but made me think more of game shows. I’m not sure which word is correct, or if the quotation is authentic—it does appear all over the web, but I haven’t been able to verify it.

There was no quotation at the end of the episode this time, but midway through the show, one of the characters made an offhand remark about what “a cognitive scientist at MIT” said about coincidences. That turns out to be an authentic quotation:

It doesn’t surprise me to learn that the writers of this show read Psychology Today. You can read the entire article here: The Power of Coincidence

Criminal Minds airs Wednesday evenings on CBS. For our previous writings about this show, see the TV category.

Once again, here are the quotations from the most recent episode of Criminal Minds. I normally post these on Friday, but I’m running late this time.

They actually used only the ending of the Fromm quotation (“…the ultimate choice for a man”) but I thought you might enjoy the whole thing.

Stay tuned next week for quotations from the next episode. Criminal Minds airs Wednesday nights on CBS—check your local listings. See our TV Category for previous episodes.

Once again, here are the quotations used in this week’s episode of Criminal Minds. Once again, there was only one quotation, since this was essentially the second half of last week’s episode.

As with many of the quotations in this show, this one is difficult to authenticate, although it’s all over the web. However, I did find the following interesting treatise on light and dark in The Republic:

Stay tuned next week for the quotations from next week’s episode of Criminal Minds. The show airs at 8PM or 9PM, depending on your time zone, on CBS.

Each week I present the quotations used in the CBS series Criminal Minds. Since this week’s episode had a bit of a surprise ending and was essentially the first half of a two-part episode, there was only one quotation:

Incidentally, some readers have asked how to find previous posts about Criminal Minds. I’ve created a TV category for this purpose. Click on the category name (TV) to view all of the posts about television, most of which are about this particular show.