Jail Quotes

637 quotes by 498 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee
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
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
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
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
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
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. — Dr. Dre
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
Jail is much easier on people who have nothing. — Bernhard Goetz
I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. — Chen Guangcheng
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
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
And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail. — Eric Clapton
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

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