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cop out

«A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.»
«Will: I didn't ask for this. Sean: No, you were born with it. So don't cop out behind 'I didn't ask for this.'»
Author: Good Will Hunting | Keywords: cop out, Sean
«Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.»
Author: Kurt Cobain (Musician, Singer) | Keywords: cops, cop out, rock
«Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.»
«Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.»
«You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.»
«Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.»
«I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.»
Author: Jack Handy (Writer) | Keywords: cops, cop out, ice, murder, one way, picks, sale
«Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.»
«If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.»