Prison Quotes · Page 87

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the…

— Lauren Oliver

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

— Rand Paul

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

— George Bernard Shaw

The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

— Craig Kilborn

As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I…

— Philip Zimbardo

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get…

— Lisa Lutz

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

— Paul Hawken

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

— Seneca the Younger

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks…

— William Deresiewicz

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop…

— Jesse Ventura

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall…

— Anonymous

Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and…

— Naz?m Hikmet

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

— Carrie Fisher

... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth'…

— Ambrose

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song…

— Pete Seeger

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

— Gene Tierney

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new,…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons

I have kept no secret about my time growing up in Miami, U.S.A., and landing in trouble and going to prison for…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has…

— Tom Clancy

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

— Karen Marie Moning

“Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.”

— Melody Lee