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Dr. Spencer Reid Quotes

Total quotes: 51
“Medieval medical practitioners believed that chickens could absorb illness. They would rub the birds all over the bodies of the diseased in an attempt to rid them of their sickness.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 13: Submerged
Tagged: Medieval Europe, Illness, sickness, Quack Cures, Folk Medicine
“I'm gonna walk you through a scenario and your face is gonna tell me how close I am. From the moment I arrested you, you watched and waited for the right time to take your revenge. When you learned I was going to Mexico, you took it. You and Lindsey framed me for murder so I'd be put in prison and treated like a criminal, and then you kidnapped my mother so I would know how it feels to have a parent manipulated, because you want to prove that you and I are the same. Am I right?”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 12: Red Light
Tagged: Mexico, Prison, manipulation
“Bullying leaves lasting scars.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 12: The Anti-Terror Squad
Tagged: Buillying, Trauma, Scars
“Actually, some studies indicate that men take twice as many selfies as women 'cause it's considered to be an acceptable form of male vanity.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 12: The Anti-Terror Squad
Tagged: Men, Women, Selfies, Male Vanity
“Documented examples include high-functioning autistics who collect child porn to pretend to plan a school shooting. They know that there's power in those images and those actions, but for them, there's no paraphilia behind it. They don't derive pleasure from it. What I don't see is someone who's interested in explosives. We need to rule out...”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 11: The Storm
Tagged: Autism, school shootings, Paraphilias, explosives
“You'd be surprised how many killers do what they do because of their parents.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 11: Entropy
Tagged: Developmental Psychology, killers, Parents
“Although the observable universe is continually expanding, there's really no way of knowing the whole thing is gonna ultimately collapse into one gargantuan Black Hole.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 10: The Hunt
Tagged: Black hole, Universe, Entropy
“The business of incarceration is extremely lucrative and virtually recession proof.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 10: Lockdown
Tagged: Incarceration, Private Prisons
“You know Garcia, she carries a laptop, not a gun. She can't even look at crime scene photos without needing pictures of panda bears to counter balance them.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 10: Burn
Tagged: Laptop, Gun, Crime Scene Photos
“The Mountain Man seems to be a confluence of several local legends. Some say he's part of the backwoods Appalachian population, others say he's a confederate holdout trying to start a second civil war to turn brother against brother. But the one thing they all could agree upon is that when you go into a darkened bathroom and you chant "I hate The Mountain Man" three times, he'll pop up behind you and kill you the next time you hear Lynyrd Skynyrd on the radio!”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Blood Relations
Tagged: Mountain Man, Appalachia, Civil War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, folklore
“I guess now I know what a parent feels like when their kid grows up. Someone who's depended on you for so long and then suddenly they're off living their own life and they don't really need you anymore.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Persuasion
Tagged: Empty Nest Syndrome
“There's something known as the magical age, between nine and 12, when a child's psyche is more malleable.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: The Return
Tagged: Magical Age, Childhood
“Typically, voyeurs are nonviolent and content to remain bystanders.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: Gatekeeper
Tagged: Voyeurs, Bystanders
“Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: In The Blood
Tagged: Moral Vigilantism, Guilt, Repression, Low self-esteem, Self-Loathing
“Lobotomies are considered to be the surgery of the soul. Doctors like Walter Freeman claimed they could cure a number of mental illnesses. He believed the procedure could relieve suffering.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: To Bear Witness
Tagged: Lobotomy, Walter Freeman, Mental Illness
“The praying mantis can kill and eat a multitude of creatures but the most interesting fact is that oftentimes the female mantis engages in sexual cannibalism, meaning she'll bite off the head of her mate once copulation is complete, sometimes even during intercourse, actually.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 9: The Inspiration
Tagged: Cannibalism, Praying Mantis, Sexual Cannibalism, Copulation
“The number of pathogens passed during a handshake is staggering. It's actually safer to kiss.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: Restoration
Tagged: Pathogens, Handshake, Germophobia, Kissing
“Nothing violates one's sense of security more than being attacked in their own home.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Gathering
Tagged: Burglary, Security
“You know, oftentimes when a stalker's advances are completely ignored, their erotomanic fantasies will be diverted to a more receptive target.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Lesson
Tagged: Stalkers, Erotomania
“The Greeks translated ‘puppets’ as ‘neurospasta,’ which literally means string-pulling. And throughout time they've been used as a method to tell kings a story so the subjects didn't have to speak directly to him.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Lesson
Tagged: puppets, Ancient Greeks
“Erotomania has very little to do with sex. It's a romantic or spiritual connection that erotomanics crave. Victims of the delusion tend to be from a higher social status and have done very little to stimulate or encourage such a belief.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: Magnificent Light
Tagged: Erotomania, Social Status, Delusion
“Dr. Spencer Reid: Braden certainly would be vulnerable. Unlike classic autism, language ability is intact in people with Asperger's. They appear to lack empathy and have trouble reading social cues. Albert Einstein supposedly had it, as do some well-known Silicon Valley types.

Alex Blake: Well, how about you?

Dr. Spencer Reid: What's that?”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: Through the Looking Glass
Tagged: Autism, Asperger's, Social Cues, Silicon Valley, Albert Einstein
“Actually, dragging is steeped in English history. Back in the 11th century, drawing and quartering was a common form of punishment, and in fact, they would also disembowel and behead the victims when they were done with them.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Pact
Tagged: Dragging, English History, Drawing and Quartering, Disembowelment, Decapitation
“He doesn't give a damn about black or white. The only color that son of a bitch cares about is green.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: A Thin Line
Tagged: Race, Greed
“Members of the Manson family left watermelon rinds at the scene of the crime and also painted panther paws on the wall in blood in the hopes of convincing authorities that the Black Panther Party was responsible.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: A Thin Line
Tagged: Manson Family, Black Panther Party, Watermelon
“You know, 14 is when we start to make our own musical choices. Our cognitive development evolves at that age and we start to form our own cultural identity.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: Unknown Subject
Tagged: Teen Years, Adolescence, Age 14, Cultural Identity
“Dr. Spencer Reid: All right, try looking for thefts involving body parts, specifically left legs.



Penelope Garcia: Okay. See, this is why I can't talk about how my day was at dinner. Breakfast, lunch.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: There's No Place Like Home
Tagged: Body Parts, Gross, Nauseating
“Depression is a vicious cycle. It frequently manifests itself in the degradation of one's personal living environment, which in turn, fuels the depression, which then worsens the living environment.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: From Childhood's Hour
Tagged: Depression, Vicious Cycle
“You know, he might have Capgras syndrome. It's a delusional disorder in which one believes that their friends and loved ones have been replaced by imposters.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 7: Dorado Falls
Tagged: Capgras Syndrome, Psychiatric Disorders, Delusional Disorders
“Dr. Spencer Reid: Do you wanna know why horror movies are so successful?

Derek Morgan: Why is that, genius?

Dr. Spencer Reid: They prey on our instinctual need to survive. In tribal days, a woman's scream would signal danger and the men would return from hunting to protect their pack. That's why it's always the women and not the men who fall victim to the bogeyman.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 6: The Stranger
Tagged: Horror Movies, Tribal, danger, Bogeymen
“The Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions began when slaves mixed their traditional religions with Catholicism in order to camouflage them. The elements in this altar look to me like Santeria. It's a Yoruban-based religion developed in Cuba. Practitioners worship Orishas, deities that roughly correspond with Catholic saints.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 6: Corazon
Tagged: Afro-Caribbean, syncretic religions, Catholicism, Santeria, Yoruba, saints
“The cool thing about Halloween is that it's a uniquely American holiday. I mean, despite its obvious origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian All Saints' Day, it really is a melting pot of various immigrants' traditions and beliefs. It became a little more commercialized in the 1950s with trick-or-treat, and today it rivals only Christmas in terms of popularity.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 6: Devil's Night
Tagged: Halloween, Celtic, Christian, All Saints' Day, Christmas
“Evil can't be scientifically defined. It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably linked to religion and mythology.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Our Darkest Hour
Tagged: Beyond Good and Evil, Good, Evil, Religion, Mythology, Unquantifiable
“Dr. Spencer Reid: Contrary to popular belief, decapitation is not that easy.

David Rossi: Hmm. You don't often hear 'popular' and 'decapitation' in the same sentence.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Rite of Passage
Tagged: Decapitation, Popular
“Arsonists are often mission based. They need to make sure their first fire has burnt out before they set another one. They're also highly disciplined and focused. If conditions aren't right to set a fire or, in this case, slash a throat, they'll move on.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Public Enemy
Tagged: Arson, Discipline, Focus, Arsonists
“Aaron Hotchner: There are lots of ways that sons defeat their fathers.

Dr. Spencer Reid: I just keep getting Ph.D.s.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Public Enemy
Tagged: Oedipus Complex
“Well, the brain is a machine, designed to respond to stimuli. You keep the brain awake but the body immobile, it breaks down, loses its hair. After two months it eventually strokes out.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 5: The Uncanny Valley
Tagged: Ghost in the Machine, Brain, Machine, Stroke
“Referring to oneself in the third person is not uncommon for an unsub. Ted Bundy gave thoroughly detailed accounts of his murders, but he never actually admitted doing any of them, he'd just say, ‘the killer.’”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: The Big Game
Tagged: Ted Bundy, Third Person, Murder
“To get away with murder, you simply don't tell anyone.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: No Way Out
Tagged: Murder, Confidentiality
“Reid: [referring to the bomber's phone call warning of an attack 'where it all began'] So Seattle's 'where it all began.'

Morgan: We just need to figure out what "it" is and, off the top of my head, I can think of grunge music and overpriced coffee.”
— Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds, Season 2: Empty Planet
Tagged: Seattle, Grunge Music, Starbucks, Terrorist Bombings
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