People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“treat you like a criminal,” he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out… — Ronald Cotton Copy Share Image
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
In 1990 there were about 300 scripts being written demanding the release of Nelson Mandela. And suddenly we watched Mandela walking out… — John Kani Copy Share Image
He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and… — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had… — Marko Arnautovic Copy Share Image
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Living among society's outcasts and experiencing the brutality of America's prison system did more to set (or confirm) the direction of my… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“I could try to dematerialize and find my way back, but knowing my luck, I’d end up in a terrorist training camp.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will… — Coolio Copy Share Image
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance?… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a… — Sherman Austin Copy Share Image
