Criminal Minds quotes

Garcia

Yeah, this is true. All complaints filed were false alarms, but then there is that matter of his missing wife.

Reid

Wife? What wife? When did she go missing?

Garcia

Almost fifty years ago.

Reid

No record of her ever being found?

Garcia

I got two words for you, my friend: Rear Window. That guy probably chopped that lady up into delicious, bite-sized little pieces. Think about it. She may have never left the premises. [whispers] She may still be in the house.

Reid

Garcia, I'm sitting here in the dark alone. Thanks.

Garcia

While you're waiting for a potential murderer to come home? Kind of dangerous. Kind of sexy.

Morgan

You really are afraid of the dark.

Reid

I'm working on that.

Morgan

You should work a little harder.

Greenaway

[after turning in her credentials] You know, when I first started this job, the sound of my phone ringing, a call from the Bureau, I used to get so excited. The blood would race through my veins. And now, that same sound, it paralyzes me. I'm not the same person anymore. That night at Lee's, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

Hotch

Even though you killed someone?

Greenaway

I guess that's it, then. You know, when I first joined the team, I couldn't figure out why you never, ever smile. Now I think I'm actually gonna miss that.

Hotch

I'm gonna miss you too.

JJ

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said, "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."

Reid

You don't believe the girls are missing?

It's not really the kind of thing that happens around here, you know?

Gideon

You'd be surprised to know how many times we hear that.

Garcia

He who seeks the "Queen of All Knowledge" speak and be recognized.

Reid

Garcia, we're sending you some cigarettes.

Garcia

Why not a flesh-eating virus? It'll be faster and far less painful.

Reid

We need some butts rushed to the lab for DNA analysis.

Garcia

Oh, Reid... I love it when you say "butts." Send away, sugar. Bang bang for now.

JJ

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm

Gideon

Robespierre wrote, "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

Reid

[referring to the bomber's phone call warning of an attack "where it all began"] So Seattle's "where it all began."

Morgan

We just need to figure out what "it" is and, off the top of my head, I can think of grunge music and overpriced coffee.

Morgan

Hey, Dollface, ready to work some magic for me?

Garcia

Challenge me, you beautiful behavioral analyst.

Gideon

I'd like to attach a protective detail for you Dr. Cooke, until we find the guy.

No, thank you.

Gideon

Excuse me?

Really now. Do I seem like the sort who would want to be followed around all day by a government goon squad? I don't think so.

Morgan

Goon squad?

Gideon

Ever talk to someone who wants to continually show you he's smarter than you?

Morgan

[motions to Reid] Every day.

Reid

I need to stop by a bookstore and get a copy of Empty Planet. I want to reread it before we talk to the author. I haven't read it since I was six.

Morgan

Six? I was still riding my Big Wheel at six years old.

Reid

Do you mind? It will only take 10 minutes.

Gideon

To buy it or read it?

Reid

Uh... both, actually.

Gideon

Elbert Hubbard once wrote, "If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

Hotchner

Ma'am, we've just been assigned your daughter's case. We're in the process of gathering information, but so far no witnesses have come forward.

Well around here guns go off like those damn car alarms, every 15 minutes. Nobody's stupid enough to talk, nobody cares.

Reid

We do.

You wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for them [gestures towards the children in the other room. [picks up newspaper and reads from it] "Heinous crimes against upstanding members of the community." Nobody writes about prostitutes being shot, because they won't admit they think they're cleaning up the place.

Hotchner

You're right. Cases like your daughter's usually go unsolved, the problem is people aren't looking for them, because they don't know that they're missing. Part of her job was to stay below the radar. Doesn't mean she was any less important.

Gideon

[to the Mill Creek Killer] If killing those women made you an artist, the things you did to them after they were dead, what does that make you? I mean, really, it just doesn't seem very artistic, does it?