The Reason Crime Doesn't Pay Quotes

#1. The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Laurence J. Peter

#2. The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!

Peter Hoeg

#3. You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

Jason Wu

#4. Don't come yet, boy! You betta hold onto God's unchanging hand! You betta hold yo mule while you shout!

Quan Millz

#5. These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate municipalities...they face grave difficulties in meeting the essential needs of the aggregate population.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.

#6. Kira had a warrior's spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

Jami Gertz

#8. When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

Amy Nuttall

#9. Optimism is a gift, but one that must be carefully controlled. Your hopeful optimism will get us all killed!

Noelle Crawford

#10. Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Bill Gates

#11. The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

Laird Barron