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Criminal Minds, Part 6

June 27th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

Here are the quotations that were used in the last two episodes of the CBS series Criminal Minds. The show will return for a second season this fall, and I look forward to seeing whether they continue their obsession with quotations.

Until then, a couple of links fans of the show may also enjoy:

  • Criminal Minds Online is an informative fan site for the show.
  • WikiQuote has a comprehensive list of quotations used in the show, as well as quotes from the show’s dialog.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire, Dialogue, XIV, “Le Chapon et la Poularde” (1766)
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Previous Criminal Minds quotations:

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Criminal Minds, Part 5

June 26th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

Since the TV season is over, I’m catching up on posting the quotations used in the CBS series Criminal Minds. Here is the second-to-last batch of quotations:

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus, (1923-1971)
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
George Bernard Shaw
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt

Stay tuned for the final group of quotations tomorrow. More Criminal Minds quotations:

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Criminal Minds, Part 4

May 10th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

I’ve been away a couple of weeks, but since the season finale of CBS’s Criminal Minds airs today, I thought I would catch up on our series of posts with quotations heard on the show:

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
Norman Maclean
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

This show is shown on Wednesdays at 9:00 Eastern/Pacific. More Criminal Minds quotations:

We’ll have two more posts to cover the rest of the quotations in Season 1 of the show. Stay tuned.

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Criminal Minds, Part 3

March 29th, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

As I’ve written about before, one of the nice things about the CBS drama Criminal Minds is that it often includes quotations in the narration, and unlike most quotations you’ll hear on TV, they’re accurate for the most part.

Since the show is shown on Wednesdays at 9:00 Eastern/Pacific, I’m featuring quotations from the show each Wednesday until I catch up. Here’s the third batch of quotations, from approximately episodes 12-14:

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Bible, Genesis ix. 6.

More Criminal Minds quotations:

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Criminal Minds, Part 2

March 22nd, 2006 by Michael Moncur in TV

I wrote about the CBS TV show Criminal Minds a while ago. While it’s still not the best show on TV, it has improved a bit, and they still include quotations in the narration on a regular basis. I’ve received several emails asking about quotations on previous episodes, so I’ve collected them as I watched. Here’s the second batch of quotations featured on the show, from approximately episodes 7 to 11:

With foxes we must play the fox.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway, “On the Blue Water,” Esquire, April 1936
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Peter Ustinov
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

Criminal Minds airs Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific on CBS. The next episode is tonight. Tune in next Wednesday for another batch of quotations from the show. (See part one for the first batch.)

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