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Criminal Minds, Episode 2.7

November 6th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in Quotations, TV

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.

Criminal Minds, episode 2.6

October 27th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in Quotations, TV

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.

Criminal Minds, Episode 2.5

October 20th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

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.

Criminal Minds, episode 2.4

October 13th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

Once again, the latest episode of Criminal Minds on CBS included quotations at the beginning and ending of the episode, and once again, people are asking us what they were. Here are the quotes from this week’s episode:

The Kundera quotation was used in an abbreviated form: “The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” I’m reasonably sure the longer version above is the correct one. Their rendering stripped much of the meaning from the quotation, although the essence remains.

Stay tuned each week for our report on the quotations used in this show.

Criminal Minds, Episode 2.3

October 6th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

Once again, the latest episode of Criminal Minds on CBS included quotations at the beginning and ending of the episode. Here’s the first:

I’ve seen a different version of this quotation from Mark Twain, so I wasn’t sure if this one is correct, but it appears to be from one of his essays. The similar quotation is from Twain’s autobiography:

And finally, here’s the quotation from the ending of the episode. I haven’t been able to confirm this one yet.

Criminal Minds airs each Wednesday evening, check your local listings for details. Stay tuned next week for quotations from the next episode.


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