Murder Quotes - Page 9

• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

  Henry Rollins

  Understanding, Degrees, Needs

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• One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
  Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Flames, Lust, Sin

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.756

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• Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

  George Carlin

  New York, Car, People

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Interesting, Madeline

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• By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Law, Two, Drug

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• All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Shadow, Empires

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• We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

  Potter Stewart

  Taken, Punishment, Crime

  Potter Stewart's expression of the majority opinion in 7-2 ruling that the death penalty is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment for premeditated murder, July 2, 1976.

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• One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

  Demetri Martin

  Ironic, Weapons, Difficult

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2011

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• In my head I think, There is a beautiful picture here and by God, short of murder, I'm going to get it. So shut up and hold still! But what I say is: You look wonderful. It'll just take a minute. It's marvelous. We're doing something very special.

  John Loengard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Special

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Real

  Jeff Rosenheim, Walker Evans, Jane Ninas, Historic New Orleans Collection (1991). “Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936”, Historic New Orleans

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• Do you know why it's so hard to solve a Redneck murder? 'Cause there's no dental records and all the DNA is the same.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Dna, Causes

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• The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Night, Different, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is a problem that Islam has. I called upon Muslim leaders to call out and denounce these murders, these terrorists. Decrying violence isn`t enough.

  Donald Trump

  Leader, Islam, Violence

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.

  Chris Hayes

  Christian, Baby, Warrior

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Hero, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

  Rose McGowan

  Suicide, Energy, Causes

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• I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. These shows like Forensic Files, City Confidential, I just can't get enough of them. It's always the same sort of deal. You know that they interview the actual people that lived through the experience. I miss Paul Winfield as the host of City Confidential, may he rest in peace.

  Kevin Pollak

  Rest In Peace, Cities, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  Weegee

  Beautiful, Cameras, Affair

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• Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that. Hey, dude, what are you in for? Armed robbery? Murder? And then, you have to say, Love. And, that's definitely going to get you, you know, picked last for prison kick ball.

  Christopher Titus

  Love You, Someone You Love, Want

  "Titus / Private Dave". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Suicide, Thinking, Grandparent

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2010

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• I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.

  Dana Gould

  Suicide, Thinking, Multitasking

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• 59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.

  Dana Gould

  Suicide

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• Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Two, Numbers

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• I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Running, Country

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