Jail Quotes
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson -
Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.
Tupac Shakur
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
Salvador Dali -
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule -
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.
Mike Tyson
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White -
Jail is cold. It's very, very cold… I just wanted to not freeze to death and stuff, you know? It was pretty scary and I gained like 60 pounds. Three hots and a cot, man.
Wes Scantlin Puddle of Mudd -
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Ed Koch -
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!
Ursula K. Le Guin -
All of North Korea is a jail.
Kim Young-sam -
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
Kangana Ranaut -
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
John Money -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
I am not afraid to go to jail.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
Eddie Slovik -
I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
Victoria Gotti -
People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
Unita Zelma Blackwell -
We know estimates to build a new jail run about $90 million and would cost $25 million to operate, ... We owe it to the taxpayers of Oakland County to explore other options.
Eric Wilson -
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
Tahar Rahim