Prison Quotes

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Prison
  • Stay
  • Maybe

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Bitter

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Prison

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Father
  • Electricity
  • Expert

• Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Superstar
  • Humbled

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  

  Joel McHale
  • Makeup
  • Cheetos
  • Grape Juice

• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Escape
  • Functions
  • Fairy Stories

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Kill

• Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Design

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Protect
  • Prison
  • Nations

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fame
  • Prison
  • Tongue

• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Me
  • Stop

• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

1

2

3

4

5

...

16

previous

next