Inmates Quotes

65 quotes by 63 authors

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity.… — Joe Arpaio
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… — Thomas Sowell
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and… — Kim Severson
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. — Doris Roberts
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals… — Jimmy Hoffa
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years… — John Paul Stevens
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… — William James
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. — Lester Roloff
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really… — John Paul Stevens
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. — Robert De Niro
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,… — Chip Heath
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get… — Laura Prepon
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. — Laurie Notaro
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep… — Maria Monk
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the… — Mark Twain
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a… — Virginia Woolf
That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your… — Hannah Whitall Smith

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