Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
In the land of badass, you’ve just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew anyone else’s private world. In the end, they were all alone as inmates on death row, side by side. Sometimes… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
People don't seem to be safe inside Pentonville, and now it transpires inmates can escape. That is the final straw. If they… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff,… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me. — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for… — Doris Roberts Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure… — David Fizdale Copy Share Image
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