The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.