Arrested Quotes

• I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

  Zach Braff

  Gob, Want, Matter

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• [for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.

  Franco Frattini

  Country, Italian, Simple

  Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, War, Development

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• Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

  Tim Robbins

  Mean, Law, Unjust

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• Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

  Calista Flockhart

  Depression, Ally Mcbeal, Don't Change

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Madness

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• You do what you love, or you get arrested.

  Lou Reed

  What You Love

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.95, Melville House

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• CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

  Paul Weyrich

  Real, Silence, Terrorism

  "Questions for CAIR" by Paul Weyrich, www.newsmax.com. January 21, 2004.

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• There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested.

  Mel Gibson

  Apology, Night, Thinking

  "Gibson pleas for forgiveness as series is dropped" by Dan Glaister and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

  Lloyd Mangrum

  Golf, Cities, Regulation

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• If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

  Mobutu Sese Seko

  May, Littles, Too Much

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• I do think this is where television is going, and I think that it's awesome to be a part of a show like this because we are these pioneers into this new medium. And it's working. When you look at the success of House of Cards and Arrested Development, which I love, this is how people are watching television now. It's pretty cool to be a part of this whole thing.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, House Of Cards, People

  Source: collider.com

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• [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered.

  Roseanne Barr

  Children, Grandmother, Animal

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them

  Joseph Ole Lenku

  Police, Suspects, Has Beens

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• Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

  Jo Bonner

  Justice, September 11, Ongoing

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• The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

  David Frum

  Powerful, Asking Questions, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp

  Janet Evanovich

  Yesterday, Twelve, Dresses

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.10, St. Martin's Press

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Holiday, Night, Two

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• Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Done

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, 1925.

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• The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

  Junot Diaz

  Should

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• Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

  Dave Eggers

  Christian, Men, White Man

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• Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went in to rescue — why would she do that?” Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlord’s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? “Guess she’s kind of taken with us,” Cuffs said. “You know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didn’t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. It’s...seductive.” He raised an eyebrow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Lying, Believe, Taken

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• A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Hot, Uniforms

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.105, St. Martin's Press

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