French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. That my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."
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S1 E4Plain Sight
Do you think it's weird that I knew that ballad?
I don't know how it is you know half the stuff you know, but I'm glad you do.
Do you think that's why I can't get a date?
You ever ask anyone out?
[nervously shifts his eyes] No.
That's why you can't get a date.
I hate not having a plan. We're looking for a needle in a haystack.
Actually, it's more like we're looking for a needle in a pile of needles.
What?
A needle would stand out in a haystack.
Okay. Then we're not looking for someone who stands out.
No, we're looking for a particular needle in a pile of needles.
Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"
S1 E5Broken Mirror
[after seeing another agent flirt with Morgan and girls stare at him]
Must be tough, man.
[laughs] Not really.
What do you mean? You don't DO anything and these women are throwing themselves at you.
Strictly off limits, Reid.
There's no code of conduct that says agents can't socialize.
Yeah, well, see, my code of survival says never mess with a woman who carries a gun.
Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
EDEvan Davenport
[to Reid] Excuse me, can you actually read that fast?
Our conscious minds can process sixteen bits of information per second. Our unconscious, however, can process eleven million. [off Davenport's look] Yes, I... I can actually read this fast.
I don't know everything. I mean, despite the fact that you think that I do.
I never said that. When have I ever said that?
Every day since I met you!
This morning at breakfast.
Yesterday when he beat you at cards. Um, we've got one minute.
Anybody ever heard of sarcasm?
Euripides said, "When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."
S1 E6L.D.S.K.
Reid failed his qualification.
Well, he can retest in two weeks.
Yeah, but he's gonna be embarrassed about it, so let's not mention it.
Yeah, let's not, huh.
Not a word. [Reid enters the room] Hey, we're all here for you. I'm serious. If you ever need anything... [places a whistle around Reid's neck and blows on it] just blow on that.
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it."
Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Shakespeare and is actually a slight rewording of "Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable" from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.]
[about a head shot Reid accomplished] Nice shot.
I was aiming for his leg.
Well, I wouldn't have kept kicking, but I was afraid you didn't get my plan.
I got your plan the minute you moved the hostages out of my line of fire.
Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly.
Hotch, I was a twelve year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine year-old girl. [tries to return the gun]
No, keep it. As far as I'm concerned, you passed your qualification.
(Reid nonchalantly gives the whistle back to Morgan)
Touché, kid.
This is going to hit you, and when it does, there's only three facts you need to know: You did what you had to do, and a lot of good people are alive because of what you did.
What's the third?
I'm proud of you.
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