Jail Quotes
637 quotes by 498 authors
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I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio…
— Bobby Vinton
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I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show…
— Derek Bok
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From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels…
— Tom Robbins
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Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a…
— Sukarno
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You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the…
— Todd Akin
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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
— Polly Toynbee
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But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing…
— James Belushi
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Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know…
— Frank Abagnale
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I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug…
— Don Cheadle
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I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this…
— Duane Chapman
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain…
— Barbara Deming
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I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
— Dr. Dre
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Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I…
— Andrew Gross
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Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.
— Bernhard Goetz
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I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.
— Chen Guangcheng
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Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm…
— Joe Arpaio
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million.…
— Idris Elba
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And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.
— Eric Clapton
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Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls…
— Dean Martin
Who Wrote These Jail Quotes
498 authors contributed a total of 637 Jail Quotes, led by these top contributors: