Crime Reporter Quotes

#1. When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Heather Brooke

#2. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos

#3. Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

Ezra Stiles

#5. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Albert Camus

#6. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

Nadifa Mohamed

#7. Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

Brendan I. Koerner

#8. I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Eli Roth

#9. I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the homicide detectives there."
- Gabriella Giovanni, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

Kristi Belcamino

#10. About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Howie Carr

#11. I daily examine myself on three points: - whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; - whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; - whether I may have not mastered and practised the instructions of my teacher.

Confucius

#12. You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

Zach Galifianakis

#13. I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

Katia Winter

#14. In every business your customers are the road. Your customers are the life blood of your business. Without your customers you have nowhere to go. In fact, without your life blood, you won't have a life. Without them you are dead.

Clay Clark

#15. I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

Hilton Als

#16. Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

Meat Loaf