His Cell Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his…
— James Keller
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every…
— Dannion Brinkley
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him…
— Don DeLillo
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General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt…
— Jay Leno
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When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously,…
— Ken Robinson
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I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a…
— Grace Gifford
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell…
— Charles Dickens
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Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially…
— Jonathan Rauch
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A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the…
— Anthony de Mello
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,…
— C.S. Lewis
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I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how…
— Susan Orlean
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...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
— Italo Calvino
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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to…
— Jodi Picoult
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like…
— Erving Goffman
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually…
— Sara Zarr
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of…
— Virginia Woolf
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A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped…
— Rachel Vincent
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That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken…
— Laurie R. King
Who Wrote These His Cell Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 His Cell Quotes as follows: