(338 quotes found)
“In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.”
Conan O'Brien
“Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?”
Eddie Izzard
“I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.”
T.S. Eliot
“Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.”
John Gotti
“Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.”
James Q. Wilson
“This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest”
William Shakespeare
“Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.”
John Berryman
“I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.”
Mike DeWine
“As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned...it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.”
Zoran Djindjic
